Shrimp Suicide

[Hoppy]

Hi!

Had a bit of a shock in the tank last night with one of our 6 amano shrimps.

Found one of them looking rather pink as it had managed to cook itself . We immediately looked at the water temperature and everything was fine, the others were still their normal colour too and the fish were swimming around happily.

The only things we can think of is that it decided to try and clean some algae off of the heater but chose the wrong time to do it or that it sat on one of the leaves of the plants that are floating in the top of the tank and got a bit close to the light - bit of an Icarus moment.

It's put me off prawns for the timebeing.

Hoppy

 

[Phantom Thief]

Yerp, fishkiller is right. Shrimps will turn pinkish after a certain period of time after they die. So your heater is not the cause of any problems

P.T.

 

[Hoppy]

Thanks for this guys - you have put my mind at rest.

As it was our first shrimp death we were obviously quite shocked and didn't know what to expect so assumed that it had cooked itself. It can only have died that day as we noticed it at feeding time.

Our water stats are fine but we had a fish die on us a couple of days ago (we are certain it was dropsy and had treated accordingly) but it rather helpfully decided to die in one of the logs and was a pain to retrieve. As we were finding stuff to extract it with, one of the shrimps decided to scavenge. Do you think this could be what caused the shrimp to part company with us?

Hoppy

 

[moray]

did you add a treatment to the tank? some treatments for fish are dangerous to inverts.

 

[drango91]

i dare you to eat it

 

[Neal]

Mine was bright red, then I found two more in a cup, I left the lid off my tank for a night (being as dosile as I am), and they all jumped out, I had 4, found 3 dead and can't find the other one in my tank, it has to be in the tank or behind my cabinet...

Neal