I'm thinking that maybe since it isa 10 gallon , adding two new fish at once may have started a mini cycle. even though the same day i added the fish i also did a gravel sweeping about 2 hours prior, i did another one today to change some water and it was completely filthy. I am very notorious on how much my fish are fed btw, i'll eventully take it overboard and buy a digital scale to amek accurate amounts lol I've neer had ph problems liek this in the past, i've also never had asingle snail come in the past, but this is the tank thats gonna test on everything possible...i can feel it...worse yet, i still haven't been able to afford a nitrite, nitrate, ammonia and hardness test kits, theres only one company i trust with testing kits and thats aqua pharmacueticals, there ph test kit was awesome when i had tanks an its all i go by,m but thats me, so right now my local fish store is doing the other test until i save my pennies for the test kits, sadly i think my 29 gallon tank dreams are gonna have to wait a bit longer till i get all the test kits i need