Actually, it was microwavable indian food, cait, lol. Thanks for the new comments
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Morning Update:
I woke up this morning to see the very first cloudy tannins. It's starting to look like a licorice gourami habitat
. I retested the PH, however, and to my dismay it's still holding fast at 6.0. I added two more indian almond leaves, bring this to a total of 2 1/4 cups of peat(corrected from yesterday) and 4 indian almond leaves. I'm being conservative about adding things because it is a whole lot easier in this tank to lower the PH than bring it back up because of the fact that any methods to bring it back up would most likely increase the GH. Just to be on the safe side I tested the KH, which is a flat zero.
I also added the filter(acclimated it clumsily) and some mangled frozen bloodworms(the bloodworms had had the aluminum wrapping taken off of them a long time ago and are now hard and probably devoid of nutritional value) to create an ammonia source. I'm hoping that the addition of ammonia will also drop the PH somewhat.
Here's some updated pics of the tank today:
That's a hydro 10 sponge filter
