Cycling - Nitrite drop

I was just reading this: New Tank Syndrome

Cut and paste "On rare occasions, some trare occasions, some tanks will mysteriously stay at the nitrite peak for weeks or even months. Adding a handful of gravel from an established tank will usually cause the nitrites in these tanks to crash to zero in a day or two."

Has anyone done this during their cycle, and did it change nitrites ?

 

How long has it been setup, how much base/liverock/sand, what did you start the cycle with, and what have the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate readings from your cylce been?

 

Until the tank produces the necessary amounts of diverse bacteria required to convert ammonia to nitrites (Nitrosomonas, Nitrosospira, Nitrosococcus, and Nitrosolobus) and bacteria that further converts nitrites to a less toxic form of nitrogen, nitrates (Nitrobacter, Nitrospina, and Nitrococcus), you will continue to see these elevated levels. Yes, the addition of "seeding" a new tank with established mature agragate/sand will help to speed up this activity of reducing ammonia, nitrites and nitrates.

 

When I Started my 55, upgrading from a 30, I added about 1 cup of sand from the established 30 gallon...spread it around the crushed coral in the 55, and was told at the time it was benificial to the cycle process...I also introduced a small yellow tailed damsel.
My cycle time was approx 10/12 weeks with the most noticible spike around the 7 or 8 week marker...lasting about 5 days.
In response to your question..Yes, I've done it...and I seen no adverse effect....kinda like chicken soup when you have a cold..."can't hurt"
Now, as bogie states...has this been established and for how long...could be different results?
LG

 

Setup at 1/1.
Base: 40lbs (cured with 1 to 2 hours transporting).
Start: Lime sand & LR
Readings: Ammonia disappeared on 18/1, about that time nitrite had been over 5+ (at the test limit).
Nitrite has been there since.

It's probably around the normal cycle period but I wanted to see if people had tried it and made any difference.