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Thanks, I'm glad the 4 remaining pulled through. It's been over 24hrs since I added a RCS to the tank, and all seems fine with her and the Amano. It looks like the alkaline water soak of the plants did the trick. Tough lesson learnt there. It would have never occured to me that a regular wash and so...

Thanks for the reply link81, I tested the water and it came out at pH 7.4, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 40ppm. I haven't got anything to test the hardness but my water company say the tap water is 'moderately hard, 270mg/l as CaCO3' (if that makes sense?). The only water I added had been treated as...

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and new to shrimp but I've read a lot of articles and posts on here that have been very useful in setting up my tank. So basically, my tank (30l, fully cycled) has been set up for a month with 2 RCS, 2 Amano and 5 CRS living perfectly happily with lamp eye's and neon tet...