Nick potts
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I kinda already know it is pretty much going to be impossible to come up with any reason or anything, but you never know.
Did my daily check on my shrimp cull tank, it's a mix of cherry and crystal reds in there, they have been happily living together for around 6 months now. I have the occasional shrimp death as expected due to age or bad moults etc, but I was greeted by carnage today, I have pulled out maybe 100 dead cherries and a single crystal red so far (the tank is very overgrown), Ottos and shrimp are all fine.
Nothing has changed in the tank, it runs on a large Hamburg matter filter as well as a couple of standard sponge filters, I feed daily a mix of shrimp king range. There is a strict no spray rule around the tanks so i have ruled out an aerosol/cleaning spray etc.
I checked the parameters and I am getting an ammonia reading which I was expecting with the amount of dead shrimp.
Currently doing a large water change, but as i add the water back slowly it is going to take a while.
Any thoughts welcome.
Did my daily check on my shrimp cull tank, it's a mix of cherry and crystal reds in there, they have been happily living together for around 6 months now. I have the occasional shrimp death as expected due to age or bad moults etc, but I was greeted by carnage today, I have pulled out maybe 100 dead cherries and a single crystal red so far (the tank is very overgrown), Ottos and shrimp are all fine.
Nothing has changed in the tank, it runs on a large Hamburg matter filter as well as a couple of standard sponge filters, I feed daily a mix of shrimp king range. There is a strict no spray rule around the tanks so i have ruled out an aerosol/cleaning spray etc.
I checked the parameters and I am getting an ammonia reading which I was expecting with the amount of dead shrimp.
Currently doing a large water change, but as i add the water back slowly it is going to take a while.
Any thoughts welcome.