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Hello again. I have good news to report, I have spotted a handful of tiny red cherry shrimp! We will see if they get to adulthood with the Corys in there. I’m willing to wager some shrimp lives to test out Cory cohabitation. In follow up to other replies, I am pretty measured about the Shrimp Essentials, I add the 5 mL to each gallon of RO water or decorinated tap water that I add (which is every other change). However, I agree it would be a good idea to test GH and KH since there are clearly some tap water minerals getting in there. Now the mystery snails, that’s still a mystery. I’ve thought about putting a piece of driftwood extending above he waterline. Perhaps they would be more content laying there than in the sides of the tank.

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Thank you both for your advice and I think I have managed to sort out what I will do which will be a bit of both! This week I will keep adding KH+ as much as I can to help exhaust the soil, it probably won't make much difference in 5 days but will set it on it's way. I will then leave it a couple of days to stabilize (probably it will go back to KH0) before I get the fish on sunday. Then I will do my usual weekly water changes with the tap water which will have some KH. I will do 20% and drip the new water in and hope that the fish can cope with the albeit small (1KH at most, probably less when dispersed in the tank) increase at that point over many hours, and then I guess the soil will absorb it back to KH0 within a day, until the soil is exhausted then it will very slowly start to go up but will be gradual. Thanks again to both of you and well spotted to JayC for picking up I was getting a bit stressed with it................. I really appreciate the help. DEFINITELY NO MORE TANKS AFTER THIS THOUGH - bet you've heard that a few times???? Simon

Next week I will be giving all my shrimps away to a friend to setup my new Nano tank with just red wine, panda and blue bolts. Right now I use ADA, but a recommend using Black earth premium, as the soil does not break down. with a Nano tank, be prepared to do lots of top up at water.