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The best I could do. Was looking for a fingers crossed smilie.

best I can do rick

Tests are still the same
PH 7.2
Amm .25-.5
Rite .5
Rate 0
Still thinking about changing a couple of hundred litres of water, but fish are doing fine and veggies are romping

If you put enough stuff from your original system in there and without those test results getting any higher, you may be in safe territory, but then I don't have a great deal of experience.

Nah, dont change any water out.

Ammonia in the tank that water empties in is around .5 - 1 and the tank water pumps out of is .25 - .5, Nitrite is the same around .5 in the pump tank, slightly higher in empty tank, PH 7.2 - 7.4 in both and Nitrate 0 in both water temp is around 13 c, plants are raging, yabbies are menacing as ever, and fish are bouncing around happily, any cause for concern yet?

At those water temps ammo not to bad for the moment and it looks like its coming down. Nitrite bacteria are slow because of the temp and ph as long as you have 'salt' at 1-2 ppt. Going to have to watch it regularly for the moment Nocky
Agree with OBO on the water change, would just bugger up the cycling for a while.

+1

Yup, just beware of a big nitrite jump, even salt only does so much.

What level of Nitrite is worrying OB?

The school system peaked at 5 (from memory - could have been 10) last week and the trout were not perturbed at all, still their normal hungry selves. Changed out about 10% of the water and added about 500 litres extra to top up the tank (maybe 800 litres of fresh water in total) and they did not get fed over Saturday and Sunday. Level was back down to 0.5 by Monday.

above 5 would be worrying, no matter how much salt is in there I'd imagine.

The would survive short term, but they would be damaged.

Checked our results and the spike went as high as 5 before we changed out some water. It is currently sitting back down at 1.

Ammonia is still about .75 and Nitrite between 2 and 5 ph 7.2 Nitrate 0 temp 14,
One dead fish today, was looking sick for a couple of days, when near tanks the others all take off but not this one, was smallest in the tank, all others happily swimming and feeding as trout do.
The ammonia has been steady for a week at that level, Nitrate has risen slightly, I listening to you OBO and don't want to stuff the cycle and fish and plants (bar one) are doing fine.
You guys tell me when to stress, as all I am doing is drinking more EB to pass the stress away

Give them 2 days without food nocky.

I trust you have slated Nocky... I thought your Nitrite reading was 0.5... not 5... or 2-5...

Definitely don't feed... salt if you haven't, immediately... and if the level doesn't fall within another day...

Then I'd consider a 20% water change...