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Cool thanks. I shall start in a while with 20 (+ the 5 Amano) and see what happens. I won't rush to add more.

It's had water in it for a month with just 5 cardinals and the 5 amano to help cycle. A proportion of the substrate (added 3 weeks ago) came from the old tank.

So the tank is: 80cm x 40cm x 45cm - about 144 litres volume (120 litres water allowing for substrate and hardscape) Planting is a carpet of Hemianthus Callitrichoides and Eleocharis Parvula (the EP to be added in the coming week) Currently has 5 Amano shrimp - several years old, left from my...

I dont want to start 'feeding' the shrimp if I can help it as I want them eating as much algae as possible!

Yes I would indeed like to raise the water parameters slightly! That was why I asked what would be good to achieve it with as I guess the plants themselves would probably benefit from slightly higher gh and kh values. Gh booster will only raise gh so how would I up the kh value slightly?

I have had some amano shrimp in the tank for just over 2 weeks and they seem happy enough and appear to have evaded the discus long enough for me to consider trying to increase their number in the new year. My only concern is that, being a discus tank, I use rainwater, and as a result have a...