Some idle thoughts:
True mystery snails are trapdoor snails and pretty immune to ordinary toxins in the water. They just slam the door shut until the burning stuff goes away.
Baking soda contains no calcium, but does give the sodium a big bounce. Too much sodium without a balance of potassium is often lethal to plants and/or animals. All living things need four essential electrolytes plus trace minerals. The four are Ca, Mg, Na and K. Cell transport suffers when they are way out of balance.
You give us a lot of junk you added, but it is meaningless without a copy of your initial tap-water analysis. What does your tap water already contain and how much?
Amquel kills smaller invertebrates, but I have never seen it have an adverse affect on snails, fish or plants.
If you plan to hatch Nothos, harden your soft water with Seachem's "Equilibrium" which the Nothos will like. It also then lets you add salt, safely, to prevent outbreaks of Velvet disease.
I have learned (the hard way) to never, ever add salt or sodium (as in baking soda) to really soft water. Without enough of the other electrolytes, it can really screw up cell metabolism sometimes.
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