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I checked KH/GH yesterday. KH is 6 degrees and GH is 12+. Which doesn't make sense. Hardness = Alkaline but I have acidic water accoding to PH level.

Thanks. Right now everything (Nitrate, Nitrite, Ammonia) is at 0 ppm in the tank, but PH is 6 and phosphate still high. If I wanted to get the tank gradually to a PH of 7, that would mean when I changed water I couldn't just put the tap water in. I would need to pretreat that too, making more...

I have a 55 gal tank that has been set up for 2 years. I initially tried to get the PH to 7.0, but it would never go there no matter what I did. I didn’t want to make my tank a chemical soup. I have done my water changes every couple of weeks, only feed fish once a day. About 6 months ago I...