hey folks, I seem to be having a lot of amano shrimps dying lately and it’s really stumping me as to what is happening. Every few days I’m finding one of my amanos all pink and dead on the bottom of the tank. Today I found one scooting around the bottom pretty much upside down. It seemed to be flinching as if it was trying to moult but wasn’t getting anywhere and after a while it just seemed to die. I have noticed a reduction in shrimp shells (is that the term?) lately as before I was usually finding one every other day (around 30 ish small-medium amanos in the tank).
This seems to be coinciding with crypt melt too and I am equally confused as to what has caused that. I had a bad wave of crypt melt a few months ago when I switched from gravel to tropica soil for the substrate, so naturally the massive change in chemistry caused that, but everything appeared to have recovered fine until now. Nothing major has changed in the past few weeks, just been keeping up with the maintenance. The only thing I have done is add some Monte Carlo to try and get a nice carpet going, though my garras love to dig it up!!
I need to pick up a fresh test kit on Monday as mine is out of the reagents, but I am doing 50% water changes weekly with a filter clean every other week (it’s rarely very dirty). I can only wonder if something with the local water supply has changed recently?
Is there anything in particular that would cause shrimps to fail to moult (then die)? I’m a bit sad about it because I’ve really warmed to having these little critters, they add a splash of personality to the tank while also helping with algae!
Cheers
This seems to be coinciding with crypt melt too and I am equally confused as to what has caused that. I had a bad wave of crypt melt a few months ago when I switched from gravel to tropica soil for the substrate, so naturally the massive change in chemistry caused that, but everything appeared to have recovered fine until now. Nothing major has changed in the past few weeks, just been keeping up with the maintenance. The only thing I have done is add some Monte Carlo to try and get a nice carpet going, though my garras love to dig it up!!
I need to pick up a fresh test kit on Monday as mine is out of the reagents, but I am doing 50% water changes weekly with a filter clean every other week (it’s rarely very dirty). I can only wonder if something with the local water supply has changed recently?
Is there anything in particular that would cause shrimps to fail to moult (then die)? I’m a bit sad about it because I’ve really warmed to having these little critters, they add a splash of personality to the tank while also helping with algae!
Cheers