Dead RCS

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I found this dead RCS when I got back from work earlier. Has this been dead for a while? All previous RCS deaths I've had were WROD-related is this something else?
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I found this dead RCS when I got back from work earlier. Has this been dead for a while? All previous RCS deaths I've had were WROD-related is this something else?
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I have plenty of neocaridina but I’m not familiar with those abbreviations. But he looks like an old shrimp.
 
Does not look like the WROD to me. He actually looks not that bad, and he had high color saturation. I am sorry you lost him. I stopped getting the white ring of death once I got the GH higher.
 
Sometimes strange things happens to these guys :(

I was looking at one of my tank this week and saw a swimming shrimp that is around 3 months old, fall dead on it's back in an instant with absolutely no apparent reason.

After running all tests, there is still, no apparent reason.
 
It's a sad thing to see :( that one was 1 of 3 bloody mary shrimp left from the original 15 I got a while back. I introduced lower-grade RCS in an attempt to start a colony but no results so far
 
Since I switched to remineralized RO/DI water, I noticed an higher activity level with the adults. And no more deaths in that tank for 2 weeks now (finger crossed)

At the moment I'm at my fifth 25% water change with only RO and SaltyShrimp Minerals GH/KH+

It's probably psychological, but I think they enjoy the water more than ever. And hope it will remain that way.
 
It's a sad thing to see :( that one was 1 of 3 bloody mary shrimp left from the original 15 I got a while back. I introduced lower-grade RCS in an attempt to start a colony but no results so far
It sounds like you need to look into your water. Get the parameters right and the colony will thrive. GH is a common one that is either too high or too low. Or nitrates - most shrimp don't generally get on very well with a long term nitrate concentration of much over 10-15 ppm. I'd certainly check at least both of those.
 

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