It looks like this is the case. I think it is in ill health also. The glass shrimps I have kept that turned white have all died within a few days-weeks.
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It looks like this is the case. I think it is in ill health also. The glass shrimps I have kept that turned white have all died within a few days-weeks.
wait so sounguru when this happened to your cherries, did you isolate them? Did the infection spread? Were you able to treat the tank? I'm now a little worried about the equipment I've been using for acclimation (mixing cup, airline, bucket)
Sounguru
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I would wait if you can isolate him .... I isolated the shrimp and did deduce that it was spread by one shrimp eating daed infected shrimp.... If he makes it a month in isolation I would say he is just supposed to look like that.
I never saw it spread by nets and such and no cure I tried worked.
I never saw it spread by nets and such and no cure I tried worked.
DAVIDFBT
Extinct? Since when?
I am 90% sure that he's a regular American Glass shrimp, just white. IME, when they turn white, they die within 2-3 weeks.
I'll place him in quarantine and sit down for another session of the waiting game.
Davidfbt: do you know if the white is from old age or a fungal/bacterial infection like sounguru suggested?
Davidfbt: do you know if the white is from old age or a fungal/bacterial infection like sounguru suggested?
Some species will change color as they age, all will as a reflex to stress. Similar to how people blush, flush, at stressful times. Just, it's a big deal, for a little invertebrate.
Milky white is the color of a fatally injured/stressed shrimp. I can't tell, from your pictures, but quarantine practices are best for any new additions.
Milky white is the color of a fatally injured/stressed shrimp. I can't tell, from your pictures, but quarantine practices are best for any new additions.
The orange bands on the claws are characteristic of Palaemonetes paludosus, the common ghost shrimp of the Atlantic slope. It may be ill, but it could also just have a mutation that makes its flesh that color.
just an update:
I found him on his side occasionally twitching. I think it's safe to pronounce him dead from a fungal/bacterial infection. He lasted 2 weeks in quarantine.
I found him on his side occasionally twitching. I think it's safe to pronounce him dead from a fungal/bacterial infection. He lasted 2 weeks in quarantine.
