Someone else would know better what to do about pH adjustments. My tap water here is hard and on the high side, which works well for almost everything I keep. I've had to use a mix with bottled water to lower the pH a little for some plants I've been growing. I've paid more attention to how someone lowers their pH, like with using peat and so on... than having to raise it. I know a little crushed coral added to the substrate or filter box will raise your water's pH, but I'm not sure how predictable or consistent that is.
All I know is don't bother using those bottled pH adjusting chemicals and buffers the LFS's keep trying to sell us. Any artifical change like that would be temporary and might not even work. Once you get the answer to this question and aside from whatever you need for that.. all you should need is Prime for taking care of chlorine and chloramine.
