Hey all, tank is close to being cycled and (hopefully) fish ready. Got some new test strips to check some more parameters and it seems to be saying my alkalinity and KH are near zero?
Is this normal? I heard you can put some crushed coral in the filter to help with it but I wasn't comepletely sure if it would be necessary or not. Just wanting to avoid hurting fish when I eventually put them in there. For what it's worth, I have several snails that hitchhiked in on the plants that seem to be doing perfectly fine, and all my plants are doing good as well.
Posted by DimbleDirf
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Strips aren’t super accurate. If your ph is actually that low, then it needs to be higher for the snails.
Fish don’t care too much about those parameters, but inverts do.
I take it you aren’t running CO2.
Crushed coral increases general hardness, which you have already. A KH reading of 0 is kind of unusual and your tank pH is unusually low for having high hardness. But, test strips aren’t known to be that accurate.