shrimp deaths

Hi, I currently have a 10 gallon where all the caridina shrimp died due to unknown reasons, but they al died rather quickly and in the hours leading to the death they were sluggish and turning orange. I suspect this is a bacterial infection, and as such we will likely reset the tank. However...

I had bought five shrimp just a day ago. Later last night I only counted two. Today I can't see any. I siphoned the gravel, nothing. Then I picked up some decorations and found one dead body. I think they might've all died but I can't find more bodies and I don't want to cause an ammonia spike...

Hello everyone im not new in the shrimps hobby and breeding shrimps i got 3 tanks with neocaridina and 3 tanks with caridina and tigers galaxies tibee amanos almost everything and all is doing fine except caridinals now my problem is that i got a new tank from 2 weeks with cardinal shrimps like...

Hi guys, in need of some advice. I have a 40L heavily planted tank, with ADF's, cherry shrimps, and Amano shrimps. Recently, 17th November I found a small cherry shrimp had died and today 28th November another cherry shrimp has died. I'm not a shrimp expert but I got these guys in mid-October...

I have a 5.5 shrimp tank and for the past week or two, every other day I notice a dead shrimp in the morning. Doesn't seem to matter if it's an adult or juvenile, or what coloration. I have about 10 red rilis, 5 orange cherry, and 5 blue velvet. It's a planted tank with pearl weed, java moss...

Have included as much info as I can think of to help so apologies for length. I have a 60l shrimp only tank, also used to grow out plants. Originally stocked two weeks ago with 30 RCS bought from a local hobbyist plus a couple oranges I already had. Filter was cycled previously in a tank with 6...

Is my shrimp dead? I’m sure it’s legs are still moving

Hello. There are a few changes I have made that to my setup that a likely to cause problems but I’m trying to narrow them down. I recently rescaped my tank and treated the Cyanobacteria with hydrogen peroxide after temporarily removing all shrimp, fish and filter sponges. Since then I have...

I am new to the fish tank hobby. i started about 3 months ago. i have a 40 gallon planted tank i have 4 very big amazon swords, java moss, some fern looking plants, water lettuce, frogbit, some duck weed, and a few other plants i don't remember. As for fish i have a male powder blue gourami, 2...

I just got two japanese algae eating shrimp yesterday, and I found one dead in one of my decorations and the other is nowhere to be found. I don't think the fish in my tank couldve eaten an entire shrimp overnight though. I have 2 balloon mollies, female beta, and a black molly. Could these guys...

Hi all I have just been reading some threads on here and came across one which states new plants bought from LFS eg pets at home are mostly dosed with insecticide which kill the shrimps :( I didn't know this and thought maybe I wasn't the only one and thought to post it in a new thread :)...