u/KikoTheWonderful

The stem plants in this tank are growing much slower and smaller leaves than they used to. My anubias has holes in the leaves, everything is covered in diatoms (I think?), and my tiger lotus isn't growing new leaves and the biggest one rotted. Everything used to grow like in the last 2 pics. I have tested everything and it all is normal I think.

at the time of this post, 3 days after 80% water change:

Ammonia: 0ppm

Nitrite: 0ppm

Nitrate: <5ppm

pH: 7.7 (rises up to 8.2 if I slack on water changes)

pH from tap: 7.4

GH: 10⁰

KH: 9⁰

TDS: the digital pen thing I have says 95ppm and in the corner it says x10

fertilizer: Easy Green All-in-One and Seachem Flourish root tabs

Tank age: ~2 years

substrate: Activ Flora

Inhabitants: Rabbit snail died very young recently (concerning?), bladder snails (recent appearance, probably a hitchhiker), ~13 Blue Eye Forktail Rainbows (Pseudomogil Furcatus)

I can provide additional information but I think I covered everything