Corysmitten
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Been running a wee ten gallon to learn on, have been running empty five weeks , ghost feeding and binge watching videos, learning about cycles etc. finally got decent test kits and my tap is a 9 ph, but softened with indian almond leaves and bark and topping off with distilled or RO water, 20% water changes weekly, one nerite snail for couple weeks, one large, three small plants in and around filter, few very small floaters started, and mmy water is now ph 8, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, trace nitrate, kh 80, gh 120, still too high on ph for the pygmy corys (6), amano shrimp (2), and one notopala snail currently in quarantine. They are in ph just under 7 , gh and kh 2. I need to even that out without killing off good bacteria built up in the ten gallon. But now i for first time check tds and ten gallon is mid 600s and qt tanks mid 100s for tds. How do i get the parameters more equal and healthy for their eventual intro to the ten gallon?