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Hi all: I thought I got rid of snails in my two year old 40 gal. But I cleaned a filter Aquatop 400 and found a few hundred in it small things. I even had assassins snails in the tank and I have broken shells all over the place as well. I plan on cleaning the tank and changing the substrate. I...

I have 2 bags of peat moss ( roughly the size of a golf ball - from great wave engineering) and three almond leaves - 5 x 8 inches) in the tank already and no change at all. It's like it's laughing at me (the tank) So I am going to remove all rocks in the tank and see what happens

Aquarium plants I have been using tap water all the time until I tested it Friday and it was at 8.4 so I went and bought 7 gallons of distilled water and used that in the 40 gal tank. The ph ignored the fresh water, went down to 8.4 and then right back up to 8.7

Thanks but I have only used a PH adjuster maybe. Four times in the last year and a half. I been afraid to use it ( Seachem's Safe and or acid buffer) and that's it. The Co2 is timed and adjuster or regulated by the apex controller ( off at night) for my plants although it is suggested that CO2...

Ph levels rise and stay at 8.7 I am having the same issue my tap water is high in PH, approx 8. 2 out of the tap, but it has been sitting at 8.7 and no matter what I do it will go back to 8.7 even if I run CO2 ( tank and regulated) or put in distilled water. I have done everything I can think...