So I just tested my water for the first time in a couple of weeks (I was away from home and had my mom adding ammonia to the tank for me while I was gone), and my ammonia and nitrite are fine but the water for my nitrates was BRIGHT red, which puts it around 40-80 ppm. That's a super high number I think, and i'm wondering if it's too high for me to go ahead and buy my axie and have it drop in time to put him in there? It'll take a few days for one to get here anyway, and I just added a gallon of water to the tank (I would have done a water change, but the water level had dropped so much that I could just straight up add a gallon without taking any out....idk if that's basically the same thing??).
Any other measures I can take to drop the nitrate level a little without crashing my cycle?
Any other measures I can take to drop the nitrate level a little without crashing my cycle?