Kat

I think the problem has stopped by simply keeping the water pristine. I don't see anymore with this white bead symptom. I really only saw it on the original shrimp survived the terrible water conditions. It might be a symptom of ammonia poisoning? I have kanamycin, but I won't use it yet, since the shrimp are looking ok at the moment. Tx!

That's a great description, white/cream beads through the body. I'm still not sure if the ailment is spreading, I only have little baby shrimplets left in the original tank. The affected shrimp lived for a long time after, I only had three adults in the tank at the time of the overfeeding incident. The first pic is of one of the oldest shrimplets, one who survived. The second pic is of her mother (def showing this white beading). It seems I was concerned about the shrimp in the first pic after she had shrimplets herself, so I was curious if the ailment is sexually transmitted. If that's the case, I guess removing any affected shrimp immediately might halt the infection/disease. Thank you for your help

Thanks! So is that her head and guts I'm seeing? There were some shrimp (all dead now) who lived through the most abhorrent conditions over the summer when I returned from vacation to a severely overfed tank with 24 rotting dead baby cories. There were only a few shrimp in the extremely cloudy tank at the time. All of them developed this whiteness through the body and the last one living died a few days ago. There's a bunch of shrimplets now, and the pics above are of a shrimplet born after the overdeeding incident, but one of the oldest shrimplets. Her mother definitely had this muscular necrosis. Pic below I don't think I noticed the whiteness on the shrimplets born after the bad conditions, was doing water changes like crazy, I'm just scared now. I'll continue to do what you suggested, and I'll keep the shrimp in question on her own and keep my eye out. Thank you!

This is a low quality blue velvet. A friend told me she looked sick, so I moved her out, but I'd like to know if she is sick or just a really ugly blue velvet. Are the 'heads' of good quality blue velvet supposed to be blue as well? I'm a bit worried about the shrimplets in her last tank too....like will they get sick....and so on. If she is sick, I don't know what's wrong?

That's exactly it. Ph will rise depending on the kh after you add Salty Shrimp to mineralize. What's in azoo mineral plus? Check your kh after adding Salty Shrimp. If it shows a kh, your pH will keep rising again, despite if you add pH down. The kh stabilizes your pH. If you register a kh of 2, your pH will probably plateau at around 7 or just over. Bear in mind, the nitrogen cycle consumes kH and so do some plants, so tank water will react differently than the cup test. I still wouldn't go lower than a kh of 2. Your water is not stable at all without it and the nitrogen cycle pretty much will halt in a pH lesser than 6.0, so it's not easy to maintain a low pH (unless co2 is used to lower it).

Tx Soothing Shrimp. The chain LFS AND the person who sold me the shrimp didn't take any responsibly at all. That angers me the most. Selling shrimp off for cheap that they just want out of the store. Rant.....

Well, it doesn't matter anymore about segregating. Those poor quality blue diamond shrimp wiped out all those blue shrimp at the beginning of the thread in the pics I'll just start all over again with the 8g like I planned and white sand. My cull tank still has some wild/mixed shrimp. The BBRR project is stalled for now and I'll just try to get some healthy shrimp back.

I just understood these were BV because they were the first to show any red. I haven't kept red cherries for years and definetly in a separate tank. The cherries got picked off by my crazy angelfish pair. There was a nice colony in the 46g bowfront when it was just home to my pair of EB rams. Anyhow, I thought the red cane from BV. I was told my shrimp were blue pearl, but that's impossible right? They don't interbreed with regular neos?

Miss-coloured berries? They look red, or are they wild coloured? My low quality BVs have a wild colour head. I'm getting grey/blue shrimp with patterned red. Some are red rilis. I'm waiting to see if they tint up with a greyish blue body. Tx for your experience. Even if they are not BBRR, they look neat to me.

Update: I'm adding a smidgeon of Seachem Equilibrium at each 3 x weekly WC to replenish and increase minerals for shrimp because my water is too soft I think at a gh of 4 and most of the time zero kh. I also added cuttlebone and this happened. I think they were starving for calcium. Poor shrimp. I don't think that the only problem, but the shrimp with white inner tracks are still alive. I see a dark poo line on some of them And lots of at least rili shrimplets all over. Some low-quality blue velvets.

Btw, bamboo shrimp are awesome to keep. I only have two and I'm not sorry I got them. They change colour dependant on their mood. Here's one of my bamboo shrimp before I learnt about supplying current. If they are picking off the aquarium floor, they are hungry apparently. I wouldn't doubt it, ,they just came home from the chain LFS, and we're in a quarentine tank.

Yes, both should be fine ☺. I keep bamboo shrimp AND amanos in my 90g with seven sub-adult angelfish and they are fine. I added the shrimp at night when the lights are off, as mentioned above and I ensure there is enough ground cover to hide in. The only issue I see is bamboo shrimp like to hang out in the current and catch floating debris in their netted paws. If there isn't enough current low in the tank, they might open themselves up to being harassed by large fish. But my amanos have become quite brave.

Ok, I agree. No changes too quickly, especially with sensitive inverts. Thank you.

Ok tx. Something terribly contagious and fatal entered my system, that's for sure. Oddly enough, you say rise in temp? For some reason, the 10g was 82°f when I returned from vacation. I thought the fish sitter accidently hit the heater adjustment. So the temp DID rise in one of the tanks. The other tank where I see most of the white inner bodies, it crashed competely. I feel so bad for my shrimp The pH is 7.0 -7.2. Should I add some coral or cuttlebone?

Mr F: I'm also going to look for the bb-in-a-bottle, if not Dr. Tims, another brand, that's a great idea after medication. Since I already have Kanaplex, can I just use that? Should I half dose it?