Within Hours, All My Cherry Shrimp Were Dying! This is How Diagnose & Prevent Mystery Shrimp Deaths
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- All My Cherry Shrimp Started Dying Within Hours! How To Diagnose & Prevent Mysterious Shrimp Deaths. All my cherry red neocaridina shrimp started to die within a few hours. The plecos, corydoras and medaka rice fish fry in the nano shrimp tank (5 gallons) were seemingly healthy and alive yet all of the sudden my shrimp started to drop dead and i had no idea why... this is how i stopped it.
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Don't sweat it too hard. You did a great job of turning a tragedy into a learning opportunity.
Thank you...that was the goal i suppose
I found my answer to wat i am experiencing...❤❤ watching others trying to get an answer is a dead road. Where u not only talk but alsoo show the real the real experience.....thats why u are my favorite fish u tuber❤❤
Awwv thanks Johnny. So glad I could assist!
UPDATE! as of 24 hours later, all the shrimp i was able to pull out of the tank alive that evening, are alive and looking great today... so it was definently a PH CRASH
Bummer about the shrimp but what caused the pH crash?
Thank goodness you sorted it out 🙏♥️
Sucks but glad you saved the remaining ones!
@@FAKE-NAME the vinegar i think he said
@@FAKE-NAME yes the turkey baster and about 150ml of half water half apple cider vinegar ...with a ph of 2
Humans are creatures, too, not perfect machines. You are allowed to be human. You also knew what to do and acted quickly. Thank you for sharing the information, as well!
Thanks, Alexander, for continuing to document your trials and tribulations so thoroughly. It's very helpful. Good luck with the new house!
Had the same problem all my red cherrys and blue dreams died over night it's a new 5 gallon had an ammonia spike. Just have to make sure everything is cycled
Thank you for sharing this experience. It was very insightful.
Sorry for your loss. Please don't beat yourself up unfortunately we all make mistakes. Especially when were not feeling 100% . But pleased you shared you video with us .
One day append also to me, I accidentally soak the sleeve of my shirt in the tank, the shirt was freshly washed, so I found to be the chemicals in my case.
R.I.P. my pretty little shrimps ❤😢
As always very useful tips... Great content bro 💪🔝
Ahh man! That's rough. Sorry
Oh man I'm so sorry. And thanks for trouble shooting this for us and letting us get into your head about it.
so so sorry ,it always sucks when things like this happen.love your channel,you are my favorite Channel love how you go in depth on Aquarium subjects!!
Thank you very kindly. That makes my day....after 2 really seriously crappy ones. I truly appreciate your viewing. Thank you. Cheers
It's my first time having neocaridina or shrimp in general. The other day I bought 5 red cherry shrimps and added it to my 10G tank. Just a few hours ago one of them died and I feel bad. I couldn't imagine how you're feeling right now. I'm sorry for what happened to your tank.
Thank you. It's a learning curve... ive kept one tank for 4 years straight and yet had others seemingly crash out of the blue within weeks
Good job in rescuing them.
Don't beat yourself up. Its not nice but these things happen sometimes. You do great job of looking after your critters. 🙂
Thank you
Just goes to show ya that mistakes can happen to everyone at anytime at least you figured out what happened and figured out how to fix it
Great video 👍
Thanks...i try and show my "oppsies" as well as awesomeness lol
@@Fishtory one time I was going to try a spot treatment with a little squirt of hydrogen peroxide on a plant in my aquarium...but I grabbed the container with alcohol instead. Strangely it didn't kill my betta and not sure why I got off so lucky. It's a terrible feeling to see dead animals of any sort.
Do you drink apple cider vinegar mixed in water for health reasons....I've heard this about vinegar/honey mix...
For now I would only think to say..at least not all the tank mates succumbed. I know you really like your shrimp though.
Hey Alex, sorry about your lose mate. We all make mistakes so don’t beat yourself up. I know it’s sad seeing the little fellas pass.
Thanks Pete. Cheers
Same thing happened to me last year. I gave up and finally got some new shrimp from a local breeder and so far so good
Great video because a real life incident! Sorry for your struggle but thank you for sharing and for all the info!! Sucks being human and making mistakes! Unfortunately we all do and we sure learn from them. Keep up the great work !
Thank you. Sometimes our failures teach us far more than successes do. I've been trying to incorporate this into my channel more and more. I mean given hundreds of animals in your care and 25 tanks, things happen every few weeks basically. (This was a bad one for sure). But im trying to turn negatives go positives here, so I'm glad you got something from my mistakes heh. Cheers
Glade you figure out what it was and explained it with us
Thanks. We're all still learning hah
everything heading to the top seems like low O2. Increase air flow, do an immediate water change and fill with cooler water.
Appreciate your honesty. Great information though for problem solving.
Thanks for tuning in and im glad you found it of some use!
Don't feel to bad we have all done stuff like this i know i have. Sorry for your loss.
this is an awesome piece of education through active crisis management. great video.
Glad you think so! I figured we would trouble shoot stuff in thr fishroom, in near real time. Thanks for tuning in
Now i understand thanks alex .....
MY TANK CRASHED❤
Glad I watched this. Im about to stock my new tank with amano and blue dream this week!! Thank you sir you the real mvp!!!
Thank you and good luck with the tank. Be aware that Amano are fairly agressive and get 2 or 3 x bigger than cherry shrimp. Also they don't breed in freshwater. So I'd keep only a few amanos with the neocaridina.
Cheers!
This video was very interesting to me because I have a long standing colony of neo red shrimp and I was very interested in what to look for if I see my shrimp die within hours. Cherries are very tough...notorious as a “tester” shrimp for new cycled tanks, so anything that that can kill a cherry this fast will always draw attention.
Yes, ive had them freeze and survive in ponds, ive had them survive tanks cycling, or being on the floor for 30 minutes...on and on...
So sorry man. Glad you were able to save some
I Appreciate that, man.
Sorry about your little friends. Don't kick yourself to bad we're all human.
Mushrooms should fix this
@@Fishtory Mushrooms? Please explain.
Putting in vinegar instead of tannins is just the sort of thing I would do 😂
This was great though. Most creators only show us their successes. So when we at home fail, we can't turn to them. Thankyou!
I always felt like an idiot at because most creators show the successes they have and never any fails.... which with dozens of tanks- every fishkeeper inevitably experience
@@Fishtory haha yep I used to wonder why my tanks didn't all look like Serpadesign and MD 🤣
That really sucks Alex...sorry for the losses..
Thanks, i saved like 100 babies, but my breeders are mostly gone
@@Fishtory well Nice save and thats fantastic you figured out where you zigged instead of zagged!! 👍🏻
Switch to infusoria cultures along with the vinegar eels. Walter worms are also good to culture for first foods for fry.
Wow!!!! So true my p.h. and ammonia level crashed
Sorry to hear what happened, on the bright side it’ll help a lot of people. Question for you, my new 20gal planted tank with eco complete substrate 40pounds of it and decent variety of plants and algae. It’s been a month now can i add new shrimp now? Ill most likely buy 5-10. My 2.5 gal has been cycled for few months now but it only had 2 mystery snails and lots of detritus worms in their fluval substrate no ammonia, nirites, and nitrates. I took one mystery snail out and put her in the 20 to help with algae which is all over everything. The bladder snail i got as a egg hitch hiker on some plants his shell is about a dime coin long. Also the ph last week was 7.6 i filled it with spring water with a ph of 7. Can i get some shrimp safely yet or should i wait longer? One other question i have a hang on the back filter on it currently I’ve been using to get rid of substrate particles and such but I’d like to remove it and swap it for a small sponge filter would that be a problem. Do you recommend a brand of sponge filters maybe a corner one I’d like it semi hideable or can those little box filters with the multiple media types be buried? All my medaka baby’s are still alive and getting so big they look like fish now so fun! They aren’t in a tank yet just a gallon tub. Sorry for the length again hope your doing well have a great day
It's sad to see dead shrimp .
Tell me about it. So frustrating too
Takes a lot of balls to admit a screw up, good job man, shit happens and we learn from it
Lol well, I suppose. But it's just part of life. I'm glad you agree heh
Sorry about your babies. Also happy you love them and that they arent just disposable to you.
Thank you kindly. I'm glad you feel the same way. I care for all my Creature (and plants lol) but losing them is inevitable in the hobby when you keep dozens ...or I suppose hundreds lol. Hopefully it helps us keep future Creature happier, healthier and longer! Cheers
I thought of another thing. There are special pens that you can use to write on glass and porcelain. You "set" the paint by heating the glass in an ordinary kitchen oven. The paint can then tolerate hand washing. Those pens can be found in any arts and craft store. I had a look, and Michael's has a pen called Decoart Glass Paint Marker. There must be other brands too, in other stores. The key to look for is that the paint gets fixed to the glass in an oven.
I worry all the time about putting my hands in my tanks, am I contaminating them? I'm also high risk for the virus so use a lot of sanitizer. I'm glad you were able to save some of the shrimp. You gave us a lot of information on what to check, thank you for that. I have been keeping fish for 15 years, off and on, and still learn things every day watching TH-cam.
Thanks for watching, and thank you for your kind words. Best wishes to you and your fish
Oh no man, sorry to see that.
We all do absent minded things like that sometimes. 💙
Yeahhh i seem to average about one mistake a year fish keeping..thatll harsh a tank somewhat
So sorry about this Alex. I saw at least 1 of the green jades was still ok
All 10 jades are fine..she was just pregnant and thus up in the shrimp nursery
respect!
Completely different type of bottles might be a good alternative to labels. The labels should be for people who are visiting the fish-room. As the fish-keeper, we habituate to the labels and when we least expect it, these sorts of mistakes happen. Recently, I had a neocaridina jump the filter guard and get into the return pump chamber; he appeared in the main display split in two. It never feels good losing livestock.
100%
I had something like this happen in a tank full of blue dreams last month but due to high pH. I moved the survivors to a bowl and they’re doing better now. Sorry this happened to you 😟
Sorry to you as well! It can happen so quickly with shrimp
All of us have been severely distracted at one time or another around our tanks and made a mistake that caused us to lose fish or shrimp. Don't fret over it, you're human, mistakes are going to happen in life.
👍💓👍
I had something similar happen, I believe it was because I was heating water in a pot for a water change, and there was some extra metals like coper in the pot. but yeah it sucked, at least I figured out what happened.
Awwww not copper.... damn ... the kryptonite of shrimp
I ran out of shrimp food once...poor planning.
Fed them fish food, not good, lost half my Noes before I figured it out, most fish foods have copper sulphate in them.
Did daily water changes and aggressive substrate vacuming. Luckily it didn't get into the water column.
Nerites and Amanos didn't even notice, tough little devils.
Plot twist: all shrimp are using the Nemo strategy
I recently bought 2 Orange shrimp, and added them to my tank just to test out how would they do. They were fine, so after a week I got 6 more. Right after adding these, all started swimming eratticaly and sinking down lifelessly. They kept doing this and all of them died within an hour. I was trying to find out what happened, but unfortunatelly I still have no idea. This was my first time keeping shrimp, but I did my research so I thought I was ready. Now, I'm scared to try again because it was horrific to watch them die with basically nothing I could do.
Well start with one or two for a few days, then add more next time. Also doing all the water testing and getting a kh/gh as well as tds test kit Is valuable. Nitrates are a very common killer of shrimp, as I'd having a tds of like 400ppm and or ph over 7.5 or 8. Best of luck next time, just live and learn...try to gather all the info you can . Cheers to you for lookin into it more, here though.
I'm setting up a 5 gal shrimp tank (would have went bigger but already had the tank). My lfs sold me a bag of fluval stratum, I knew it would buffer my water. My tap is around 7.8 ph. I was hoping the fluval would get it around 7. Three weeks into fishless cycle and my ph is reading around 6.6. I was gonna start with plain cherry's. A lot of people say that may be low for neocardina, do you think I will have lots of problems trying to use this substrate or should I ditch it for inert substrate? Thanks!
Another question, if I do use the stratum, when the buffering effects start to wear off, will I need to redo the substrate? Or will the shrimp adapt as the ph slowly rises due to the buffering properties wearing off?
17:03 OH GOD NO, they're eating the shrimp! Oh God! 😂
Im new at this and this terrifyed me. I wouldnt know what to do and i realize now i need more than 1 tank!!!! I must get a hospital tank just in case.WOW so scarry. At least you knew what to do. You did a good job.
Thanks, It took years of not knowing and freaking out while losing all my shrimp or fish in a tank some times.
This video should be renamed my Dr.Pepper addiction killed my shrimps.
Very sad, we get attached to even the smallest creatures. I always wondered if they feel the same kind of love for us humans.
I dont think shrimp do... but i think fish bond with humans 100%
@@Fishtory
My guppys definitely do like when I dip the tip of my finger to pet them but maybe they're just stupid and think that I am food 😁
Sorry to hear about your losses, glad you found the cause and a solution.
I once ran out of shrimp food and fed them fish food.
Big mistake, most fish foods contain Copper sulphate.
i lost about half my Neos but the Amanos had no problem.
Oh man! Rough
@@Fishtory Luckily aggressive water changes and substrate vacuuming cleaned most of it out and a strong dose of Aquasafe+ locked away the rest because the survivors are doing fine and reproducing with no lasting effect.
Its a heavily planted tank so the plants probably took up some also.
Aww, I'm sorry. ;( Thanks for sharing. Good that you could solve the problem so quickly. Maybe get bottles in different colours, and store various liquids in different coloured bottles? I was going to ask if you have green PET bottles in the USA (we do here in Europe). But another commenter said that we should only use glass bottles, which is a very good point. Glass bottles should come in clear, green and brown, at least.
Yea glass will be new ones going forward . Thanks
@@Fishtory Cool. Thanks for replying. :)
I am going thru this myself after i disturbed my 20 long eco complete red and black deep subtrate
Well after getting some Seachem alkaline buffer and going to the Seachem dosage calculator and almost following their directions. I used a 1/4 of their recommended dosage and my PH/KH numbers are off the charts 9.0 PH and 240 mgl of K/H TDS was over 700. A later and 2 water chages later my TDS is 299 PH IS 8.5 and the k/h is still high. If someone sees this please do me a favor and go to the Seachem dose chart fot the Alkaline buffer and enter this data for a 10 gallon tank. See what it tells you on how much to raise the KH from 40 mgl to 100mgl and enter what it tells you to add in a reply to this conversation.
hi , i want to ask a question i cant find any answer about this on google
i saw my female cherry shrimp swimming jumping backwards kind like twitching around i dont know what causes this because another shrimp seems fine to me except this one , should i move her to quarantine tank?
Nope that's just how shrimp move when stressed or scared. They always jump up and left or right- forward or back... without knowing where their twitch and bend will end up landing them. But great question
Could it be temperature increase?lack of O2? change in pH, GH, KH?
Thats what i was wondering at first...but when i saw a 2 full point drop i figured out it was sometime worse... i messed up
Swap the sponge out with a cycled sponge and put this one in an established tank as a second sponge along with a cycled sponge.
I ended up doing that, just incase 5 ph killed all that cycle...thank you though
Bro As I watch I hope you have an answer, same thing happened to me, not long ago. Some made it but I haven’t seen babies in weeks, saw a berried female, but haven’t seen her since.
It was the ph... the rest are all okay today though
I also noticed that in my aquarium! Crazy.
But how did it happen on mine? I didn’t add anything out of the ordinary, especially not vinegar. Not even dirty hands or sprays, I keep a lid on it. But it is a 1.5 gal so I guess anything can throw it out of whack.
What shelving do you put those tanks on?
Home depot brand storage racks ... wire, with chipboard and felt under each tank... each shelf is rated to hold 300lbs aaaaand the whole thing was 60$
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awh man...
Please do not get down on yourself, you are a wonderful caring considerate and compassionate person. Please do not forget you are also human, and unfortunately this means mistakes and human error. Please allow for your humanity. We none that I know personally are perfect. Accept learn try that is all we can do. You fixed rescued and cared for all that you could, be proud of your quick actions. I also think several critical minerals may have been eliminated. I would add a1000 mg Tim's myself to just buffer calcium and a hand full or two of oyster she'll one is fast other is slower. I also would add a shrimp mineral supplement. I keep some on hand and I would rinse stuff and scatter it to cycled tanks in a one to one swap. That includes my filter going into a tank with 2 or 3 filters just to keep a stable cycle active and recycle the now hammered filter.
I Totally agree with the acid buffering out the dissolved solids and substrates. Thank you
I just rescaped my tank after two years. I stirred up gravel and uprooted a lot of plants. Now all my shrimp are dying before my eyes and I have like a hundred. One Amano died too. I don’t know why. The mix up caused a small ammonia spike but I added prime and also did water change today. I don’t know what to do but it’s bumming me out.
Water changes and or putting 2 inches of fine sand over the current substrate to "cap" it... but yeah, substrate can spoke ammonia, nitrates and ph/tds
@@Fishtory It is still going on but not as extreme. I have tested and there is no ammonia or nitrites, but whatever happened before must have shocked them. I find 3-4 dead ones daily, usually in the morning after light goes on. Fish are doing well and breeding, but the shrimp are bundled on the top or hiding, and even my amanos are just acting off. I hope this passes soon. I knew they were sensitive but this is absurd lol. It was a 2 year established heavily planted tank I rescaped and added new plants, rocks, and dug up the substrate quite a bit. Thanks man.
Maaaaaan, so much pain :( I know it is 3 y.o., but I share, I lost 1 or 2 yesterday :( (i have a few only, this is a lot for me). And I can't find the one with the most eggs :(
It had to be my first shrimps birthday :( :(
Sorry to hear that
@@Fishtory I FOUND HER! STILL ALIVE :)
You'll want to add more calcium to this tank as most of it will have been eutralized by the acid. Add a peice of cuttlebone or crushed up egg shells.
Totally! Great point
I added a big piece of coral in my neocaridina tank. Hopefully that provides some calcium in the tank. Failed molt is also another common cause of death in dwarf shrimps so that’s why calcium is important
We are human, we make mistakes. Could've been worse. I bet you will never make the same mistake again at least
Apple cider looks like tannin water. Whoops.
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why using vinigar eells iff artemia doest has vinigar in it or ist it no option
Old habits die hard
Does equilibrium gh work ?
Yes
Don't store tanin water i n plastic bottles as you can leech out artificial estrogen from the plastic and add it to your fish/shrimps. ALWAYS use glass bottles/jars to store any tanin waters. The glass is innert and nonreactive. Dump all that plastic out. Glass is the ny way to go. Same for the vinegar eels. Use an old wine bottle to culture them in.
You know that's a great point.... thank you. I do that with human food and drinks... i should for my fish too
@@Fishtory didn’t think about that. I’m very curious now to see how your baby medaka grow up if they’ll all be the same gender or possibly sterile? Something to watch for and maybe do a vid on in future :D if most of them are like that that is.
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What happens if you only had one shrimp died. And the others are fine?? Is it just a issue with that one shrimp?
Most likely. I wouldn't panic and change anything in the tank, other than test the water parameters. :) the worst thing to do, is panic and do a big water or temperature change topped off with meds and stressing the other ones out
Doesnt that preset heater set at like 78 already?
It does but the room downstairs is about 60 lately so i noticed it hovers at 75 or 74...and even if it jumped to 78...no biggie
Hi, if i May have suggestion for another time... Grabb bucket of water from other helthy tanks and cull all endangered shrimp, then test and fix water.
Definitely also effective. Thanks for sharing
@@Fishtory everybody does mistakes and we need to learn on ones of our own . When i was about 14 i didnt know i should cut off my diy co² for night time and i sufocated my pretty pleco.
I ended up putting 1 lbs crushed coral in as well... I had one death today. I don't know what else to do!!! Any advice is appreciated 👍
Whats your temp? They need to stay under 77 max. Ummm also make sure ammonia and nitrites are undetectable... water changes of soft water and adding dried leaves are usually helpful as well
@@Fishtory I took out all the non aquatic plants. I think there must have been traces of fertilizer on them. Harsh and expensive lesson learned 😢
@@Fishtory water parameters were perfect, but TDs high. Close to 600. My other tanks (axolotl and less planted) sit at about 200 😳 not sure what the baseline was.
I have red cherrys for 6 days and yesterday I found one dead, today another one.
Check ammonia... also check ph I suspect one or the other is the issue
@@Fishtory i think it’s the ph, because I did water changes, like 20% change . Now I know that’s bad .
Shoutout to making stupid mistakes and realizing shortly after how much you messed up! Hope things worked out.
Hahah amen
So sad
Bro I woke up today and I had thousands and thousands of shrimps but there's like only 10 left .......
That sucks, but at least you caught it and saved some.
Are you going to do something to make the bottles more distinguishable, or store separately? For future foolproofing
Yes, glass bottles...coke for tannins and whatever for vinegar eels
looking at the bright side, such drop in ph might have killed everyone in that tank...
Why would anyone feed Vinegar eels wittall the safe food available?
Some baby fish need really tiny foods when they hatch
I intro Co2 and all my shrimp died.
Make sure you aren't turning it up too high, and don't forget to turn it off at night, even if it's not running fast
Wash your hands in vinegar and rinse your hands in distilled water or RO water.
Did you find out what was the course
The ph for sure.
You add chlorinator to the aquarium and *then* the tap water? Don't you need to mix before adding? Interesting.
Oh no, that was just in case the ammonia was the problem...it wasnt gonna hurt, but could have helped... but yes, i worked at a pet store that actually did that also
Unrelated, have you ever added boiled cinnamon sticks to your shrimp tanks? I read Ceylon is better than Cassia cinnamon because of the lower levels of coumarin. I was boiling what I had last night, but I think it's Cassia, so I opted not to just to be safe.
No i haven't... hmmm ill have to also look into it
@@Fishtory does every dechlorinator detoxify ammonia? or only Prime?
My tank was infested with planaria and all my shrimps are slowly dying from it :( i had to scoop out lik 5 baby shrimps each day, i honestly feel really hopeless
Flubendizol or fenbendizol/ levamisole... Google that and shrimps. If you dose just right you'll kill snails worms and nematodes but not the shrimp
I know, i have that, and I’m currently dosing them but the shrimps just keep dying for some reason
@@Fishtory never mind i found out we had extremely high nitrite levels, lots of shrimps died but i managed to save 8 baby shrimps and 4 adult ones, it’s not a lot but they seem to be doing a lot better
Oh good..at least you can work with that info!
@@Fishtory thanks :)
We all make mistakes :) u learn from it
Grandmaster fish keeper ≈ Grand Master accidental fish murderer over the years.
Kinda looks like my KH is non existent
My PH out of the tap is 6.0 if that. I looked into the Seachem Alkaline buffer and purchased some. I went on Seachem's website as they have a calculator to determine how much to use. I entered the data for a 10 gallon tank and what my KH was and then what I wanted it to get to. It said 24 teaspoons, that didn't sound right at all. I put in about 5 and when I checked my parameters after about an hour everything was off the charts. 9 + ph and my KH was at least 240 and my TDS was over 700. Seachem's calculator is way off. Did a partial was change and at lease the TDS came down to around 550. I'm going to do another water change today. It looks like I lost some cherry shrimp but there are others still alive.
Dude , cherry shrimps ( neocaridina ) should be kept in 6.8 -7.7 Ph without any tannins . Your nitrates level is also shocking (40 ppm), must be close to 0 ppm as possible. Catapa leaves are used when keeping caridina shrimps .
Not true at all...it all depends on your tap water, your food...the other Inhabitants, on and on... i have had shrimp for nearly 2 decades off and on (since the year cherries hit the market in 2003)
They can be in a ph of 6.5 -8 .... 7.2 is probably ideal. Temp...70 to 74 is ideal but they survive from near freezing to 86 or so as long as it is gradual.
As for almond leaves... no shrimp dont need tannins..but it does grow biofilm, which they do need for babies and healthy immune systems. The tannin water isnt for the shrimp... its for my fry in the tank, but its nuetral enough (6.2) compared to most tannin concentrates or black watee additives. However the biofilm living on the actual leaves is crucial for new shrimplettes.
Secondarily the liquid tannins are like liquid food for biofilm bacteria and my unique mix is countered by the crushed coral and shells in the substrate i also make, which raises the tds and ph... also if you paid attention, my nitrates were about 5 to 10...those test tubes were an hour old and if you keep fish, you know they get darker and darker and then fade out depending on the reagent test. However- ive had neocaridina survive in up to 100ppm nitrates if done slowly...i was shocked but they can survive amazing conditions.
Now babaulti, atyopsis, and caridina (other than gold nebula and malawa) are a totally different story
Like mine bro all my greenjade breeder are all gone... I dunno what happen
Sad
Covid jk
MY SHRIMPS DIED BECAUSE I PUT BANANA ON THERE TANK BUT THEY DINT EAT IT (NEWBIE FISHKEEPER)
Bummer. Sorry to hear that.
PH swing?
Yup
@@Fishtory Aww very informational. That stinks, but thankfully you knew what to do to save as many as you could and correct the issue. Accidents happen and when we are exhausted we just are not as clear minded. It happens.
I'm sorry but why do all youtubers reach for a camera instead of handling the situation first when it comes to their animals? Especially u bro, u know u be rambling 🤣. In that 5 minutes I would have had them out of the tank and been getting fresh water in and worrying about doing testing later.
It's like an Instinct that you gotta get the shot...even if you get shot lol
@@Fishtory lmao! 🤣 youtuber life sounds scary sometimes.
Received 2 cherry shrimp orders over the last 7 days and USPS totally destroyed both shipments
I just got some blue dream shrimp from buceplant.com yesterday they use FedEx and over night it. Very healthy happy colorful shrimp.
Bummer. I've never lost shrimp with aquaticarts.com code SECRETHISTORY15
@@Fishtory I haven't lost any yet from Aquatic Arts as far as I know. Since I set up this tank I probably went through 50-75 shrimp. The ones from Aquatic Arts just arrived yesterday. If these shrimp don't prosper I'll probably give up on shrimp altogether.
thanks for the video. This happened to me today!!! My neos started to drop with a few newbies I got. So I figured it was shipping. But then they started to drop off by twos, then, some well established. My parameters were spot on, maybe a little low on ph, but I have lots of botanicals. I did a 75 % water change, added a carbon over a bubbler. The only culprit I thought was a new plant I added to the top of my tank. I pulled it out. I thought I rinsed it off well, and even soaked it in water for two weeks prior. I have no other ideas. 🤯
Oh bummer sorry to hear that