I have been having some serious issues with my yellow shrimp and am struggling to figure out why. I have had great success with reds and blue pearls, but the yellows keep dying off on me. They are the only shrimp that I keep with mystery snails and there are about 12 medium sized mystery snails in the tank. The reds are in a tank with MTS, assassins, ramshorns, and pond snails. The blue pearls are in a tank with just MTS.
I am wondering if I am over feeding the yellow shrimp in an attempt to make sure the mystery snails have enough to eat. With this last batch of yellows that I got, the shrimp were feeding really well at first. I had a dozen coming to the food when it was feeding time. That was about 2 to 3 weeks ago. Since then, I have noticed some shrimp in distress and now I am lucky if I have 2 or 3 come to the food when it is feeding time. Good news is that I have 2 berried females. Bad news is that the only shrimp I ever see in the open (i.e., heavily planted tank with dwarf sag) are 3 rather large females, two of which are berried.
Would I be better off with the mystery snails in their own tank?
I am wondering if I am over feeding the yellow shrimp in an attempt to make sure the mystery snails have enough to eat. With this last batch of yellows that I got, the shrimp were feeding really well at first. I had a dozen coming to the food when it was feeding time. That was about 2 to 3 weeks ago. Since then, I have noticed some shrimp in distress and now I am lucky if I have 2 or 3 come to the food when it is feeding time. Good news is that I have 2 berried females. Bad news is that the only shrimp I ever see in the open (i.e., heavily planted tank with dwarf sag) are 3 rather large females, two of which are berried.
Would I be better off with the mystery snails in their own tank?
