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I've unfortunately have had a lot of shrimp die and we think it may be due to a white looking fungus, or some kind of infection. I thought we had gotten all of the dead ones out but we may have missed some. But the other day I put in an algae pellet and within a day it looked like the same white stuff growing around the pellet. What is this stuff and how do I clean out my tank without losing more shrimp?

My shrimps molted recently and i noticed that inside organs are little bit more darker then i used to see. I thought they were overfed themselves . But that is little more black then other ones . Is it disease? Do i have to remove it ? I dont know will it spread to others. If someone know pls help me because i dont know what to do. I hope its nothing. ( i posted picture to see what is word about)

Hello fellow Shrimp keepers, recently my shrimp started to die off one by one without any sign of problem. I double checked the water parameters and they were fine. I have googled around and I found out that it probably was bacterial infection. I keep rili shrimp so I could see the internal organs having pink color that according to the posts is a sign of infection. my question is, is it necessary to tear down the tank after all shrimp died, but fish and plants are still thriving. Could I just put medication into the tank to kill of the bacteria and then buy next batch of rili shrimps and put them into the tank or they will get infected again?

Greetings, Unfortunately my first post in this forum has to be sad. I have been losing shrimp at a very slow pace. 1 every month for the last 3 months at this point. Originally, I thought it was simply due to old age, but I just found a shrimp that may be infected tonight, and was wondering if that may have been the cause of the other deaths? Poor fella is now in quarantine. The spot sits just under the carapace of the shrimp on his right side, you can almost see a "bump" where it is located, the carapace bows out ever so slightly. It is whitish, with a smaller circle inside that is significantly more white. I only have one tank, 17g display with lots of plant life and everything has been pretty good for the last 9-10 months, not a lot of death that I noticed, unless the snails got to them first... Water params have been very stable, have not seen any swings: ph: 7-7.2 gh: 8 kh: 8 TDS: 250-300 temp: 70-73 I dose ferts for the plants at half dose (1ml) flourish excel. water changes once a week 20-30% the first picture in the link is the first dead shrimp I ever found, thought it was old age/bad molt? maybe I was wrong? Second/third picture are of the second shrimp, almost identical in every way to the first one, even the same spot of death in the tank. rest of them are the shrimp in question http://imgur.com/a/32JGi Thank you for your time!

There's a visible orange mark on my female blue diamond. It was not there previously. This is the second time she's berried, and should I be worried about this?

Hey guys, I will try to cut a long story short here, but basically I have a problem with one of my red cherry shrimp. I have 4 red cherry shrimp in a 60 L tank. All water parameters are in check; no ammonia, low nitrates, PH is at 7.. the shrimp are roving around grazing and apparently doing very well.. except for one shrimp. I have a male who has some green abnormality growing from his swimmerets. During all my learning about shrimp care I came across this briefly and I spotted it early on my shrimp and knew this is not good news. Apparently this is a fungal infection of one form or another but I have not been able to identify it by name or really find too much information about it (causes / treatment etc..) I have taken one or two pictures which show the issue on my shrimp but for an initial picture I will simply link this picture I found online which shows a more advanced and obvious case of the same infection. There is nothing conclusive online (that I have found) to advise me going forward.. I have isolated the only shrimp showing signs of this infection in a breeding box. I have medicated his isolation tank with a dose of JBL Fungol and also Pimafix in hopes of curing him. He has been in this tank for 48 hours now. So far he still has these green abnormalities on him and I don't really see much sign of improvement yet. Has anyone had this issue before? If anyone can shed any light on how, what, where and why I would appreciate it.

do you think lower temps can cause bacterial infections in neo shrimps also? i've been noticing a few shrimps in each tank having a cloudy white body but the temps are all below 70 right now. any ideas? any advice on curing them? i seem to be losing my carbons a lot and noticed my blue pearls don't seem to breeding and their numbers seem low. thanks in advance! -Amber (shrimp stupid lately)