Yellow Shrimp

[kell791a]

Hey, I'm pretty new to shrimp but I've noticed a health problem and am hoping one of you gurus can help me. The disease seems to progress from off colored opaque white patches to a solid opaque white body core. I think it may be a bacteria, they don't have any "fuzz" or "worm" looking things on the outside. I had one like this, which didn't die, but I finally removed when I noticed a second. This morning the issue seems to be spreading. Nobody has died, that I know of, though it looks like some molts are on the bottom (I'm just praying that they aren't the remnants of eaten dead shrimp, but they look like average molts). Can anyone help me?? I also have hydras and started a dog wormer treatment yesterday. The hydras aren't dead yet so I didn't want to do a water change until tomorrow. I shouldn't have let my friend babysit my tank for a week.

 

[Wycco]

I don't have yellow shrimp- I have their cousins cherry reds for a short while and haven't noticed that. (although I have noticed one of my reds has developed a burgundy-brown colour over recent days).

I will say though that what you describe sounds like what my Palaemontes have. Normally, they're transparant. Couple months back one female turned a completely opaque white. A few weeks ago- a male also turned completely white.

The female is still alive and seemingly healthy- the male died shortly after my last water change. I believe a coincidence.


Other people have reported ghost's bodies becoming opaque... I haven't heard about this for Neocaridina- but maybe it's a similar cause- and if so, not life threatening.

 

[Lexi_D]

The hydras are caused by poor water quality, and I don't think they would attack your shrimp. They should go away with a few days of light feeding and water changes. Sorry, I only had shrimp once (very briefly, lol) so I'm not going to be of much help, but hopefully some of the big shrimp-keepers will come to the rescue soon though! LOL

 

[Wycco]

Hydra won't hurt adult shrimp but they are a danger to baby shrimp.

Not as much a case of bad water quality necessarily as excess food. I recently got Spixi snails- in my research of them I found out that a lot of shrimp keepers keep Spixi's in their shrimp tanks because they'll eat things like Hydra, and Planaria and other pests that would normally be eaten in a tank that had fish but could live unharmed in an invert tank.

 

[shawnhu]

I also had this same thing happen to my Yellow shrimp, and red shrimp. Mine has been living with it and seem to be fine. Now they are colored up nicely, and it's difficult to tell which one of them had the white spots. It almost looks as if the shrimp was being cooked from the inside out.