Red Rili Shrimp Sex Identification

[Baccus]

Sounds like possibly the dreaded white muscle disease. In good clean conditions they can live quite a long time with the condition but it will eventually kill them and once they die don't let the other shrimp feed of the carcase its one of the ways that the illness is suspected of being spread.

But I was also reading a very interesting article and I will put the link here for you to read through.
http/shrimpsider.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/bacterical-infection-of-shrimp/

Sorry to hear that it looks like one of your shrimp is ill.
Best of luck with the rest of them

 

[snazy]

Probably the best thing is to remove it to another tank?

 

[snazy]

For the record, here is how the infected shrimp looks:

 

[Baccus]

If you can move it to another tank it would be for the best. I did read in an article somewhere on white muscle disease where even the parents where suspected of being carriers of the illness and passing it on to offspring during breeding.
I think the difficulty is that pet shrimp (as aposed to farmed human consumption shrimp) have so many varibles and many illnesses that are currently described and investigated for the cause and possible cure are mostly only being done on commercial farms.
Sorry for the unhelpful news, I know how much you love your rili shrimp.

 

[snazy]

I'll move him next time he is handy to catch. Poor thing.

 

[snazy]

I found this on the white muscle disease:

http/www.daff.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/2190863/white-tail-disease.pdf

If my shrimp has it, then it's a viral disease. It could be another disease with similar symptoms as well,who knows.. The milky/opaque appearance on the white muscle disease looks different than my sick shrimp though.

 

[Baccus]

The problem seems to be wether its viral or bacterial the shrimp develop very similar symptoms, the only way to really know would be to disect the shrimp, do analysis under a microscope and take swaps to see what will grow on an agar solution.

 

[snazy]

I've got a microscope but I have no clue of shrimp diseases and what to look for. I'll keep an eye and see what happens. The rest may be infected too, who knows....At least I've got just 5 shrimp to lose

I came across this article on shrimp farms. Wow, this will certainly make me think before I eat shrimp next time:

http/www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/suspicious-shrimp/

 

[Baccus]

That really is a fascinating read, and scary for any seafood shrimp/ prawn lovers. Personally it makes me glad that I have never liked the taste of prawns, crabs, lobster or krill. But it is really scary to think that extensively/ intensly farmed shrimp are allowed to imported into Australia as food (must be cooked I believe) but aquarium keepers can not legally import live shrimp for fear of disease etc coming in. Condsidering that any Asian farmed imported shrimp will mostly come into Australia whole (unpeeled) and that buyers/ public will peel these prawns and then dump the shells in landfill or worse on the ground in public parks often near waterways, the potential for spreading these diseases is scary, and rather hypercritical of the Australian government.
Thanks for the link,

 

[snazy]

I saw a tiny baby shrimp, so that cherry girl must have given birth that day it seems
I've got a fluval filter in the tank since yesterday because after washing the sponge filter(in tank water) I got ammonia rising fast. It's back on track now. Hope they don't get sucked in and that I didn't wash some of them along with the sponge

 

[Baccus]

happy to hear you found a wee shrimpee, hope more keep popping up for you

 

[snazy]

Here is a picture of the shrimplet perched on the driftwood. I've got freshwater limpets too

The shrimplets look kind of orange at the moment. I saw 2-3 at a time the most.

By the way, I've got tiny baby platies in there that I found while changing the substrate in my other tank. They are not big enough to eat the shrimplets but wondering if they would try their chance attacking them.

 

[snazy]

The platy babies were moved to my other tank. Can't risk it Maybe one or two left that are hiding.

 

[Baccus]

Personally I wouldn't have put it past the platty fry to have a nip at a tempting shrimplet, no matter how small the fry's mouths are. I have watched one of my fighters ignore all sized sub-adult shrimp swim past him, but let a shrimplet emerge and its snack time.

Thats a good pic of your little shrimplet, by the size of it I am guessing already a couple of days old.

 

[snazy]

I moved out the platy fry last night just in case. The shrimplets must be about a week old judging by when the cherry female appeared with just a couple of eggs left in her when I thought she aborted them. The other female is still berried. Let's hope they survive and don't go close to the second filter.