Also my cherry barbs that are currently in a holding tank until this tank is ready have red gills and I checked the parameters I have 0 ppm of ammonia 0ppm nitrites and I think about 40 ppm nitrates are nitrates causing thier red gills. They arent acting weird at all they are bright and...
There are no nitrates in my source water. Is it okay to change anymore water I already change 10 gallons in my 30 gallon but the nitrates are still pretty high being over 80ppm. Will I harm anything if I change more water?
I've been cycling my tank I have live plants in a 30 gallon tank I put a handful of fish food for ammonia and I've been dosing seachem stability for bacteria. I tested the ammonia levels today and they came out zero and the nitrite levels came out zero but the nitrate levels came out to over 180...