In rec.aquaria.freshwater.plants NetMax wrote:

: Ditto, and I'm going to have an empty aquarium soon, but -
: ... what shrimp would like my 8.4pH, 13dkH, 16dgH water (?
: ..and then what fish could I put in that wouldn't eat the shrimp?

: I'm going to have to set up a tank at work soon, with nice soft city
: water.

I've kept Amano and a single rhino shrimp in water that was about that hard
and a higher pH for a couple years. Their tankmates were a betta in one tank
and Ameca splendens in another. I'm actually in the process of bringing the
tank they're all now in down to match the water parameters I get out of the
tap at my new location (pH 7.2, approx. 3dKH and 3dGH). The TDS difference
was so pronounced (old was 600 average, current is 200 average) that I put
rift lake cichlid salts in all my tanks on setup here to match the parameters
of the old tap and minimize osmotic shock.