A precaution: while 0.3 % salinity is considered safe for freshwater animals, it could cause adverse effects in some sensitive aquatic plants; however, such (relatively) high concentration is used for preventing or treating pathogen-borne diseases in aquarium. The concentration for neutralizing nitrite toxicity is over 100 times less than this and will not hurt your plants.
The problem is, the high concentration of nitrites present in your aquarium is probably a result of a bigger underlying issue: an un-established or broken nitrogen cycle. I'd guess ammonia concentration in the aquarium is non-zero as well, which is harmful, too.
Having functional and established nitrogen cycle in aquarium is essential for the well-being of its inhabitants. More details about nitrogen cycle in aquarium could be found in this Wikipedia article and in this Q&A.
- attempting to read in artificial lighting with low CRI (color rendering index); it is best to read these tests in incandescent lighting (CRI = 99+) or in natural daylight (CRI = 100);, any CRI lower than that will distort the readings;
- attempting to read while being colorblind;
- using tests that were stored improperly or are past their expiration date;
- using all-in-one strip tests instead of liquid tests (liquid ones are much more accurate).
Dechlorinating water conditioner works by sacrificing its active ingredient (a strong and, water-soluble reducing agent, most often thiosulfate saltthiosulfate salt or vitamin Cvitamin C): it gets oxidized by free chlorine and in the process chlorine itself gets reduced to harmless chloride ions; this reaction does not spontaneously reverse on itself in the aquarium, so the dechlorination effect is permanent in this context.
However, progressively more and more tap water treatment facilities are using chloramines instead of chlorine; both ammonia and chlorine are added to the water and chloramines form in situ as a product of their reaction. In simplified terms, dechlorinating agent present in water conditioner neutralizes the "chlorine part" of chloramines, but leaves ammonia behind; a good water conditioner has a second ingredient that takes care of this fact and temporarily neutralizes ammonia as well. Unlike the case of Cl2 neutralization, ammonia is not neutralized permanently by such conditioner - however, in an aquarium with functional nitrogen cycle this is not a problem because the produced ammonia gets permanently and completely oxidized to relatively harmless nitrates (NO3-) in the nitrogen cycle before it reverts to its toxic form.