I actually have no clue about pH, probaly less then 7, since i use local well water and the area is relatively acidic.
Sadly the fish in the first picture wiped out during the summer to some strange fungus. The temperature 70ish, but in the ten gallon it may raise to 80 because of the heat lamp (their is a stinkpot in there).
yeah, it is only the first tank which was 10 gallon with black banded and blue spotted sunfish which wiped out, the 55 gallon has been running fine for about year and half. The new 10 gallon set up are the last few pictures
haha, i don't need bass. They eat to much and are to big. I have something better, 2 ferocious mud sunfish that even eat pellets and are 1/4 the size of a bass.