balancing water parameters

Hey yall, Currently trying to figure out a predicament i have. My tap water is very hard where I live (Im aware GH and PH are not exactly correlated as far as i know). I have a 10 Gallon Planted tank, 6 ember tetras a female betta and 6 neocaridina shrimp. They all behvae normally and eat and...

I added an Indian almond leaf into my 29g yesterday after a water change. My pH was 7.6 and it has dropped to about 7.4 now. I tested the water parameters this morning and everything else is 0 but nitrite has risen to 0.25ppm. Could the Indian almond leaf be the cause of that, and if so, will it...

Right now my tap water has the water parameters: Total hardness (GH): 25 Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0 Cl: 0.5 Carbonate (KH): 15 pH: 6.4 And my tank: Total hardness (GH): 50 Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0 Cl: 0 Carbonate (KH): 20 pH: 6.4 As you can see I have very acidic water that isn't to chlorinated. In my...