looking for a food expert to list me foods and amounts/time to eat or not to eat . Need to boost energy and lose fat. will add this to a work out. Thanks for your help !

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The tap water that I put in my fishtank is alkaline (tap water is about 7.2 – 7.4). I always test my water just before doing a water change each week. By the end of the week when it’s time to do a water change, my tank water is acidic, like 6.2 or even lower. So within a week (or less) it’s gone from alkaline to acidic, then back to alkaline again when I do a water change. No doubt this is harming my fish as I’ve had a few casualities that I couldn’t explain any other way.

Why is my pH doing this? And what can I do about it?

My tank specs:
45 gallon, 26 degrees celcius, freshwater community
Ammonia and nitrite consistantly show zero.
According to aqadvisor.com, my stocking level is 61%.
Tank has a medium-large piece of driftwood (I know this can affect the pH, but so drastically?), river pebbles, plastic plants.
Two canister filters so it is well filtered. Weekly water change of about 25-30%, gravel is syphoned during this.

Thanks for your help! :)
I put the driftwood piece in there when I first started the tank, about 3 or 4 months ago. The yellow coloured water it created has long since disappeared. Could this still affect things?

I haven’t been testing my tap water properly apparently, I will try again, thank you. :)

I just got a thought… would putting a bit of shell grit in the tank or canister help stablise it at all?

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My fiance is often tired and experiences mild depression. I think it has to do with his diet, I have just moved in with him and would like to adapt his diet to give him energy. Thanks for your help.
I know diet wont "cure" depression but he is always tired and that is what adds tio his depression. His diet so far hasnt included many vegetables, etc. I have started him on vitamins and in the last week have seen a difference. I am looking for a list of "Super foods" as such.

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I would like to start my 5 month old pitt-bull mix on a raw food diet. Does anyone have a recipe or know of a web-site that they know is good? I googled and came up with tons of sites but I hate using just any recipe, I’d rather use something that others have tried! also most raw food diets are a basic recipe, is there any changes that need to be made because Max is a puppy?
I would like to do an all raw diet, I found one for my cats that I will be starting in the next few weeks: www.catinfo.org that is raw chicken legs ground up with some added supplements. would this recipe work for dogs too? thanks for your help!

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I started my dog on the raw food diet, since I live in a very small town, I don’t have to many choices on where to get the meat. Anyways, I’m hoping that if I stock up on meat on sale, and keep it in the freezer, would all the nutrients/vitamins still be in the meat when I defrost it?(Not in the microwave, I mean naturally) And how long does meat usually last in the freezer?

I’m not much of a meat eater, so i don’t know too much about meat.

Thanks for your help!

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