Howdy,
I recently watched Irenes video on PH, GH, and KH and I would love to know more. How important is GH and KH specifically? Based on the video I assumed that you either have low KH and GH or high GH and KH since the solution for lowering these is less water changes or to increase them is to add crushed coral.
I tested my water and see to regularly have a extremely high KH (300 ish) and extremely low GH (0-40).
Question 1: Are these parameters of for my plants and fish? I have dwarf petricola, orange shrimp, exclamation rasbora, and mystery snails.
Question 2: How do I lower the KH and also increase the GH?
More info on the tank. Its a 12 gallon planted tank, with a PH of 6.8~ and I inject CO2 at a rate of 1 bubble per second. No recent water changes have been made.
Thanks for helping me understand this better.
-Nelly