Bamboo/Wood Shrimp acting crazy

ArubaSnuba

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I noticed my bamboo shrimp (aka wood shrimp/fan shrimp) acting weird this morning. Normally he is perched on a plant under the filter outflow or near the filter intake fanning for food. Sometimes I see him walking the tank bottom scraping for food. However, this morning I see him racing around the tank, doing laps as well as trying to climb up. I think he may have been trying to escape. Has anyone seen this behavior before?

I suspected something with the water quality as I may have been overfeeding trying to get my new rubberlip pleco to eat. I tested the water and got the following results: pH: 7.2, NH3: 0, NO2: 0.25, NO3: 20.

I think the overfeeding led to a bump up in Nitrites from the zero level I had just 3 days ago and the bamboo shrimp was the most sensitive to it. Funny thing is my amano shrimp didn't act crazy and my cories were not acting strangely. I didn't have time to do a water change this morning but added a dose of Prime. Hopefully this will help the situation until I get to perform a water change tonight.

Funny thing is I couldn't locate the bamboo shrimp before I left this morning after he raced around. I even looked outside the tank just in case he escaped but didn't see anything.
 
nahhh...normal behavior....i see mine doing the smae thing every now and then
 
mine has never done that. he fans for food, he scavenges for food, he molts. thats it
 
I have only owned my bamboo shrimp for slightly over one month and this is the first time I saw this type of behaviour. It seemed far from normal, but then again its the first time I witnessed it..not that it hasn't happened when I wasn't watching. I wonder if there is something triggering it.
 
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