OK I left to go to a movie at 1:30. I looked at my two ghost shrimp before I left and they were eating some of the flake food I had dropped in. I made sure they would eat it and didn't let my betta get any. So they were alive when I left along with the snail which was searching the walls for algae. I come back at 4:00 snd both shrimp are dead. There is no sign of physical damage. Just that their legs are curled in like a dead spider. AND the snail is either dead of tightly locked away in his shell. But the oddest part is, the betta is still alive. I moved the betta into a 1 gallon bowl after his previous tank needed a deep cleaning. I guess it would make sense that the invertabrates die first since they are more fragile. The water was new and I cleaned the bowl the day before I put them in. I planned to come back and change the water when I found the shrimp.
What killed the shrimp? Could the betta have done it in nearly 3 hours? Or could it have been the flake food I gave them that the betta didn't get but the snails and shrimp had access to. Or could it have been some fast acting disease?
I got the shrimp and snail yesterday at my LFS. They were supposed to be my new cleanup crew for the temp. betta tank.
Any ideas would be well appreciated.
PS. the flake food was some OLD tropical fish stuff i had from at least two years ago. It was the only food I had that I wasn't using for my goldies or my oscar.
What killed the shrimp? Could the betta have done it in nearly 3 hours? Or could it have been the flake food I gave them that the betta didn't get but the snails and shrimp had access to. Or could it have been some fast acting disease?
I got the shrimp and snail yesterday at my LFS. They were supposed to be my new cleanup crew for the temp. betta tank.
Any ideas would be well appreciated.
PS. the flake food was some OLD tropical fish stuff i had from at least two years ago. It was the only food I had that I wasn't using for my goldies or my oscar.
