lower ph

I have a 40 gallon tank with a bunch of low to neutral pH fish, but the tank is also heavily planted. My tap water pH is about 7.5 but I used some seiryu stone in the tank, and that raises both pH and kH. So I've been managing it using Indian almond leaves, but the tannins heavily reduce the...

Hi! So I've been trying to lower my ph in my tank from a staggering 8.4. I was wondering if i should use distilled water because I've been doing water changes with my R/O and some "api PH DOWN". It doesn't seem to be working that well I've done about 4 water changes with that method. Perhaps my...

I tested my new tank for the first time tonight (just got the kit in the mail). The tank is 10 days old. Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrates were all 0 as I did a 25% water change 2 days ago. BUT the pH was 7.8! My platys seem fine except the yellow one does dart around at times whereas she wasn't...