[Vpaw]

Well as some of you know my water parameters have never been good. Usually something like:
Ammonia- .20 (or 0, I can never tell)
Nitrite- 0
Nitrate- 180+ ppm!!
Ph- 8.2
And very hard water.

I thought I've been dong something horribly wrong these 6 years.. Well someone told me to try a new conditioner, I was using API tap water conditioner and they told me to try my bottle of Seachem prime (on this forum) and API is good but the one I had wasn't prime.

Well it turns out my tap water did have a fair amount of ammonia in it, no nitrates though.

Now it's been a month since I tested the parimeters (well I never wanted to because they were so disappointing) and it was so great when I tested yesterday!

5 gallon:
Nitrates- 5 ppm
20 gallon planted (usually highest nitrates from poor dead plants that couldn't take the water):
Nitrates-20 ppm!!!
30 gallon:
Nitrates- 10 ppm
65 gallon:
Nitrates- 5 ppm
All:
Ammonia- that weird 0-.25 thing going on
Ph- 8-8.2
Nitrite- 0


Now if only I could lower that ph...

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[JaybieFromTheLB]

For the ph you could put driftwood... if you don't mind the potential tea coloring of your water.
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[Vpaw]

For the ph you could put driftwood... if you don't mind the potential tea coloring of your water.
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How much driftwood does it take? The 3 larger tanks all have a piece and the ph is still high, I might use 3 gallons RO water just in the 65 gallon when I do water changes since I have mostly soft water fish in there anyways.