Poisoned My Cherries

[Nick16]

hi, i have poisoned my cherry shrimp and i dont want to lose them all, i also have 2 amanos in the tank.

its a 38l tank, and today my package of plants came through the post, so me being me, i planted my tank up and them added some EASYCARBO and TPN. now, one or both has poisoned the shrimp and i would like to know which ones are poisonous. i have done a 75% WC.

***should have been put in the emergency section.

 

[Truck]

do the ferts and what not contain copper?

 

[Nick16]

i dont know, that was my first reaction, but it says noting on the bottles, boxes or the manual inside.

 

[Truck]

do they have a website?

 

[~T~]

I dont know about the ferts but the plants may have been treated with snail killer or something.

 

[Nick16]

i think there is copper in easycarbo. checked on the internet, nothing about contents of TPN

the plants were soaked before they went in.

 

[shaz3271]

where did you get the plants from, lots of sellers soak plants in a copper solution to kill snails etc

plenty of water changes run carbon through the filterand good luck

i lost most my crystal red shrimp because of plants bought from ebay.

sharon

 

[pippoodle]

since poisoning my cherries and tigers a few months ago before i fed my shrimp tank plants again i emailed several suppliers of plant food and the only reply i had back saying it was definately safe with shrimp was from tetra
JBL said their local rep will be phoning me soon but i havent heard from him yet and that was 4 weeks ago lol
So the only food i use is tetra plantamin and have had no problems ever since using it and my plants are growning fine - too well lol

When i poisoned mine the only thing that saved them was putting them in baby nets in my other tank while i did 100% water change in shrimp tank , i still lost all my tigers but did manage to save a lot of cherrys and amanos doing this

after the water change i left it 12 hours and did a 50% change just to make sure all was gone then left it a few hours before returning the shrimp and had no more problems (luckily)

I had no problems with plants purchased from ebay as i always soak all my plants before hand as you have done

JUST had to do 100% water changes on 2 fish tanks due to water in tap poisoning fishies

COPY OF EMAIL REPLY

Dear Sarah,

Thank you for your question

TetraPlant PlantaMin is most certainly not toxic to freshwater shrimp. As a plant fertiliser, this feature would be a massive disadvantage to the product as many planted aquaria contain shrimps as part of the algae control crew. Obviously the product is completely fish & filter bacteria safe too.

I hope this has been of help

Yours Sincerely and Happy Fishkeeping!

Dave Hulse B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc.

Tetra club Help Desk

 

[Mikaila31]

the Flourish, flourish iron, Kent phos+, Kent K, and Kent nitrogen are all safe w/ shrimp. Also the EI ferts KNO3, KSO4, KH2PO4, and CSM+ B are shrimp safe.