I'm still new to shrimp and I've had a few questions over the last week and still have more but I have a berried female yellow shrimp that dropped down here eggs in the last few days. She had a ton of them but over the last 2 days she has been fanning them nonstop and this morning she barely has 4-5 left. What does this mean? Were they not fertilized? is there another explaination?
The other question I have is in regards of shrimp dying. The parameters seem great but I keep getting shrimp dying off any time I change something. I have yellow shrimp, blueberry shrimp (neocaridina palmata) and 2-3 amano. 10 Gal tank with java moss, java fern and driftwood and rocks, fluval substrate
PH=7
ammonia=0
Nitrite=0
Nitrate=between 0-5
GH= I keep it around 80ppm
Tank was cycled for about 1 month with 6 tetra neons everything went well
we had a hydra outbreak that we treated with panacur
Yesterday I did my water change of 20% in the tank. Water was heated to tank temp before putting it in and treated with Prime. I did add some seachem equilibrium to up the GH that I loose at the same time. This morning I checked the GH after finding a dead blueberry shrimp and it had risen to 100ppm. I suspected that this might be the reason.
I'm a little depressed with all this as we invested about $500 in the setup and we can't seem to get a break and enjoy the aquarium. We are almost ready to call it quits but we enjoy the aquarium really.
maybe someone can help me out at how you should go about adding products such as equilibrium etc or what may shock the shrimp. Maybe I should not be adding it right away after the water change or something. I do dissolve it in tank water before adding etc but maybe it is too harsh for the shrimp if you add it all at once. We really don't have anyone we know that can guide us through the steps involved in starting out with shrimp.
As for ferts, I only dose seachem potassium because the Excel looked like it had the bad effect on the shrimp that people reported even at the suggested dosing so we topped that.
Any basic good help would be welcome
The other question I have is in regards of shrimp dying. The parameters seem great but I keep getting shrimp dying off any time I change something. I have yellow shrimp, blueberry shrimp (neocaridina palmata) and 2-3 amano. 10 Gal tank with java moss, java fern and driftwood and rocks, fluval substrate
PH=7
ammonia=0
Nitrite=0
Nitrate=between 0-5
GH= I keep it around 80ppm
Tank was cycled for about 1 month with 6 tetra neons everything went well
we had a hydra outbreak that we treated with panacur
Yesterday I did my water change of 20% in the tank. Water was heated to tank temp before putting it in and treated with Prime. I did add some seachem equilibrium to up the GH that I loose at the same time. This morning I checked the GH after finding a dead blueberry shrimp and it had risen to 100ppm. I suspected that this might be the reason.
I'm a little depressed with all this as we invested about $500 in the setup and we can't seem to get a break and enjoy the aquarium. We are almost ready to call it quits but we enjoy the aquarium really.
maybe someone can help me out at how you should go about adding products such as equilibrium etc or what may shock the shrimp. Maybe I should not be adding it right away after the water change or something. I do dissolve it in tank water before adding etc but maybe it is too harsh for the shrimp if you add it all at once. We really don't have anyone we know that can guide us through the steps involved in starting out with shrimp.
As for ferts, I only dose seachem potassium because the Excel looked like it had the bad effect on the shrimp that people reported even at the suggested dosing so we topped that.
Any basic good help would be welcome