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Thanks guys I actually had bought crushed coral to put in my filter but the ph kept dropping, I changed out the fluorite gravel for some caribsea floramax and mixed with some nat geo black sand and my ph has become stable staying at around 7.0. My amazon swords look like they have grown an inch...

Well i was unable to find any ecocomplete locally i ended up with one bag of flora max also made by caribsea and is very similar to ecocomplete i mixed that with a bag of national geographic black sand and am happy with the results the tank is staying at around 7.2 7.3 range now will be...

So you're saying new gravel would have the same effect? The fluorite drops my PH from 7.2 to 6.0- in less than an hour.

Yeah I'm waiting for a GH and KH test kit to come in to the lfs i ordered it from. The only reason i know its that soft is from taking a sample to the store to be tested unfortunately with strips. Looking forward to seeing what its coming from the tap as far as hardness. Thanks for your guys...

I'm just gonna suck it up and get some new gravel tomorrow just to be safe I'm looking at the eco complete black substrate as it doesn't require rinsing (true pain with the fluorite) and will supposedly condition the water instantly with live bacteria and will not affect ph or kh. I'm hoping...

Yeah my PH from the tap is 7.0 if i let it sit overnight it reads about 7.2 the problem is the proper PH buffers say not for use with live plants i'm hoping the crushed coral will raise my KH however i'm unsure of how long this will take and how much to use. I don't wanna end up at 8.3 like a...

Have had Seachem's fluorite gravel for several years, PH has always been around 6 or under. Nothing I have done has ever been able to raise PH in the tank it will go up to 6.2ish and then drop right back down within hours. After losing the last of my fish i decided to pull out all substrate...

No, I'm not using anything but th seachem gravel, that's why it is so strange to me.

Trying to solve a low ph problem with my 29 gallon tank. After the rest of my fish slowly died off I thought it would be best to completely start over to try and solve my ongoing ph problem. I washed my gravel out completely and changed all of the water in it. Now, my tap water is 7.0...