Scarlett123
New Member
Hello,
I have a 6.8 gallon with a variety of Neocaridina shrimp (RCS, blue velvet, black, yellow, orange, red rili, black rili) and some Caridina red crystal shrimp. I also have one tiny zebra danio fry about a centimeter long. There are also some blue velvet shrimp fry that came from a berried female I purchased. I have a sponge filter and a bio compact Oase filter meant for tanks up to 7gallons to move the water a bit. White gravel with aragonite mixed in and planted with Anubias and java ferns. Also two other plants I don’t recall the names of.
Water stats:
Ph: 7.4
Ammonia: 0
Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 10
Kh: 5
GH: 6
Copper: 0
Phosphates: 0
Every day one is on its side dead on the gravel. I promptly remove when found. Some evidence of molting is observed.
The tank is well cycled and has been established for 6plus months. No females have become berried in the tank and I’ve had the shrimp for a few months. I don’t want to add more shrimp if something in my tank is killing them but I desperately want to see them happy and having babies/establishing colonies, etc. I have mainly females (I although I realized my crystals are all males when I introduced a galaxy who molted a few days later and the crystals all swarmed her right after).
Of note is one RCS I purchased I found ellabiopsidae on the swimmerets and moved him to a hospital tank (treating with ParaGuard with limited success for a couple weeks now). No other shrimp are showing any signs of this however, he was in the main shrimp tank for some time before it was noticeable.
Additionally I thought I saw a tiny planarian sliding up the glass this morning- but then it was gone.
Thanks and sorry for the long post- hoping to provide sufficient info!
I have a 6.8 gallon with a variety of Neocaridina shrimp (RCS, blue velvet, black, yellow, orange, red rili, black rili) and some Caridina red crystal shrimp. I also have one tiny zebra danio fry about a centimeter long. There are also some blue velvet shrimp fry that came from a berried female I purchased. I have a sponge filter and a bio compact Oase filter meant for tanks up to 7gallons to move the water a bit. White gravel with aragonite mixed in and planted with Anubias and java ferns. Also two other plants I don’t recall the names of.
Water stats:
Ph: 7.4
Ammonia: 0
Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 10
Kh: 5
GH: 6
Copper: 0
Phosphates: 0
Every day one is on its side dead on the gravel. I promptly remove when found. Some evidence of molting is observed.
The tank is well cycled and has been established for 6plus months. No females have become berried in the tank and I’ve had the shrimp for a few months. I don’t want to add more shrimp if something in my tank is killing them but I desperately want to see them happy and having babies/establishing colonies, etc. I have mainly females (I although I realized my crystals are all males when I introduced a galaxy who molted a few days later and the crystals all swarmed her right after).
Of note is one RCS I purchased I found ellabiopsidae on the swimmerets and moved him to a hospital tank (treating with ParaGuard with limited success for a couple weeks now). No other shrimp are showing any signs of this however, he was in the main shrimp tank for some time before it was noticeable.
Additionally I thought I saw a tiny planarian sliding up the glass this morning- but then it was gone.
Thanks and sorry for the long post- hoping to provide sufficient info!