Why do my red cherries keep dying?
I keep red cherries in a 12 l nano tank. The tank is a high tech EI tank.
Today Ive had two cherries die on me after two weeks in the tank. I really dont know what the reason could be. Tank is mature and I perform 50% wcs every week.
I was wondering if it could be the copper from my pipes. If this were the case then I would expect more deaths after a water change right? Well they died 6 days after I did the wc, so this might not be the cause.
Its not co2 either because I I have very good surface ripple and my ph doesnt change even 0.5 ph unit.
Could they not have enough food? I dont really feed the shrimp. I think they could survive of the food that falls uneaten and also from algae which I have although not a lot. Could this be it?
Another thing is that I keep them in very very hard water with kh of 16-18.
The only thing I did the day before they died was add some of my micro nutrients solution. If the solution is quite old could copper be getting into solution too fast as to kill the shrimp?
Any more ideas welcomed please help.
Thanks everyone.
I keep red cherries in a 12 l nano tank. The tank is a high tech EI tank.
Today Ive had two cherries die on me after two weeks in the tank. I really dont know what the reason could be. Tank is mature and I perform 50% wcs every week.
I was wondering if it could be the copper from my pipes. If this were the case then I would expect more deaths after a water change right? Well they died 6 days after I did the wc, so this might not be the cause.
Its not co2 either because I I have very good surface ripple and my ph doesnt change even 0.5 ph unit.
Could they not have enough food? I dont really feed the shrimp. I think they could survive of the food that falls uneaten and also from algae which I have although not a lot. Could this be it?
Another thing is that I keep them in very very hard water with kh of 16-18.
The only thing I did the day before they died was add some of my micro nutrients solution. If the solution is quite old could copper be getting into solution too fast as to kill the shrimp?
Any more ideas welcomed please help.
Thanks everyone.