u/No-Recognition-3363

Hello hi! I’m out in western NC. My front yard came with no trees and was just gravel when I first moved in. I’m on year 3 and still no trees bc 🤑, but I did remove all the gravel. First 2 years I planted a shit ton of white clover and tried irrigating it to help it survive the brutal southern sun. My soil is full of granite and doesn’t drain well. I gave up on the clover and gave into letting weeds grow that will at least give some coverage to the bugs, but even the weeds dry out and die. There aren’t native cacti for my neck of the woods. I have multiple flower beds with good soil/compost full of natives that are also burning up despite being drought tolerant and irrigated. I’m trying to make the front of the house self sustainable but everything just kills over around May. Any suggestions for 400 square foot desert in the mountains? 🥲 pictured above some plantain and other weeds that are actively burning up

The lighter is the PH in my well water, the darker is the PH in my planted tank. I need to do a 10% water change but now I’m worried bc I went down a ph rabbit hole. I’m getting conflicting info when researching. Will the slight difference in PH kill the shrimp if I use my well water for a water change?

Alright I’ve had 3 shrimp tanks going for 2 years now heavily planted, fluval substrate capped with sand. I do 10% water changes every two weeks. They’re breeding like crazy, deep red, and molting without issue. I want to know if mu well water is too fucked for fish. Cory’s in particular bc I love there cute lil faces. I’m hip to ammonia, nitrites, nitrate and PH parameters. Less so with heavy metals and such. Looking at these outcomes from my water test would you say these would be ok for corys? I don’t wanna be buying ro water or installing a system. If not I will accept and just keep looking at everyone’s else’s 🤪