My RCS just died.

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Hi guys,


I have a 10 gallon FW planted tank with some breeding pairs of fancy guppies and tiger ruby platys, 4 amano shrimp, and 6 RCS. All the RCS were fine and scavenging around the tank and in the java moss yesterday night. But today, when I got up and looked at my tank, I found once RCS just laying on its side, not moving, and dead. I don't know why this happened. Does anyone know why this happened because all my other shrimp and fish are perfectly healthy and swimming/scavenging around the tank.
 
Could be old age they don't live much more then 1-2 years, were they full size when i bought them if so you don't have no idea how old they are.

What are your water parameters ?

GL

Have fun
 
The water parameters are normal. The CRS weren't that old, I bought them 1-2 months ago, and none of them were full size/adults.
ph~7.2(should bring down a bit)
Nitrites~0ppm
Nitrates~10ppm
Ammonia~0ppm
 
Jody said:
read this

http://www.theshrimpfarm.com/shrimp/red-cherry-shrimp.php

and

http://www.planetinverts.com/Red%20Cherry%20Shrimp.html
Click to expand...


Idk on why the shrimp died. But yesterday, when I came back from the LFS with lots of plants, and started planting, I found many baby RCS swimming around in the tank. I also found eggs sticking to the gravel under my java moss. Does anyone know why they are there? I read the links above, but they say that the female carries them until they hatch, so why are these eggs on the gravel?

thanks
 
could be snail eggs, or the amanos tried to breed but were unsucuessful because of the lack of salinity
 
Sorry about your loss...been through this myself as I lost the first two batches of RCS I tried to keep. Same secenario: everybody fine the night before, one dead in the morning. Usually either during or just after molting for some reason, at least there was frequently an empty shell next to the corpse. Never did find out the reason for sure, but I took advice from many here and on my third try, cut back drastically on feeding. 3rd batch is thriving and has at least tripled in numbers since arrival. And tigers raised in the same tank on the same regimen are doing the same, albeit not breeding quite as fast as the cherries.

If you are down to 5 now though I would definitely get some more ASAP. Get at least 10 and if possible 20. This will allow you to go through the hump of initial losses and leave enough for a good breeding colony as soon as they settle in. Best wishes....
 
There shouldn't be any humps.
Dwarf Shrimp need drip acclimation before addition to a tank.
They will never do very well with other fish in the tank as they see them as predators, and rightly so.
Neocaridina species, especially the reds, are typically the hardiest of the Dwarf Shrimp but they must have clean water, stable parameters and good filtration.
This means water changes weekly even when your lit tells you everything is OK.
You also need a sponge prefilter or the shrimplets will vanish. And the prefilter increases the available beneficial bacteria surface area.
When you see a dead animal and a shed... it's typically a hard shelled molting problem causing the animal to die attempting to molt.
 
I have 40 gallon filtration on the 10 gallon shrimp tank with sponges covering the intake. The amanos are always on roaming around the tank or feasting on the food/algae that gets caught on the sponge. Th cherrys are always roaming around the tank/hiding in the moss/ and sometimes eat of the sponge. The amanos molt very often, but the red cherrys don't. I do a 25% water change weekly. I found 10+ babies that were 2-3mm and I put them in a baby breeder hook on thing so they won't be eaten by my breeding pairs of guppies/platys. The RCS that died was female so I think she dropped the eggs or they floated away once she died. But the babies are still doing fin.

All my shrimp are not scared of the breeding pairs as they do not attack them/ harass them at all because they are healthy and well fed. Maybe the shrimp died of a natural cause because even the babies are healthy and doing good.

anyone know how long it will take the 2-3mm baby shrimp to get to a mid adult size

thanks
 
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