Thinking about giving up on Inverts

[leeser28]

I'm back. Thanks again for all of the support. I'm thinking about putting in my harlequin rasbora and getting him a few ore to school with. It wasl always my plan to put him and some others in there once I had a colony, maybe I'll put them in early and then once I add more shrimp and see some berried put a divider in or something like that for a while. I have had live plants in there since I set it up - about 4 weeks now. I also have a nice piece of driftwood that the shrimp do a very good job of hiding in!

Copper pipes is a definite possibility! I also forgot to mention that when I did the water change before adding the shrimp and brigs I added some Flourish for the live plants - could that be what did the brigs in? When the snails looked sick I did a >75% water change, and have done two more regular (50%) changes since then so any of the Flourish that was in the tank should all be gone.

 

[snoopy65]

I dose flourish in my tanks, no problems for my shrimp or snails.

 

[leeser28]

I dose flourish in my tanks, no problems for my shrimp or snails.

Thanks! That's good to know.

 

[pik01]

maybe stop dosing ferts until you're good with the inverts. I know many people have dosed just fine but I'm just thinking about eliminating factors.

 

[leeser28]

maybe stop dosing ferts until you're good with the inverts. I know many people have dosed just fine but I'm just thinking about eliminating factors.

I did, as soon as they were sick I did the huge water change and didn't re-dose since I didn't know if they were sensitive to it. I know that where they came from there was no ferts ever used.

 

[Bubbles2112]

Maybe the large water changes were just enough to upset the balance and caused the shrimp crash? The shrimps are so sensitive to even a subtle change--I don't know but just throwin this out there for discussion.

 

[leeser28]

That's a good possibility. I have noticed that ALL of my losses (except the snails) came after water changes!

What do you think???

 

[pik01]

Did you match temperature when you changed water?

 

[leeser28]

Did you match temperature when you changed water?

That I did, I even used a thermometer when I do it as I don't trust my sense of feeling. The only time not was when I plunked the poor red cherry in the RO water which was definitely cooler than the tank she had been in, but I was desperate, and she survived!

 

[pik01]

gee idk lisa im quickly running outta ideas. Seems like you're doing everything right so far. You said there was a possibility of copper pipes? When you filled for water changes, did you run the faucet for a minute or so to flush out the copper?