RowdyBDA Posted January 18, 2019 Report Share Posted January 18, 2019 I noticed a shrimp in my tank that had started out a nice deep red cherry shrimp. over the next few days it gradually darkened to become a blackish dark maroon. does any one know why this is? this is my second observation of this in my tank. the first started out as a wild coloration and then became pink, red, purple, and then died from an injury from my fish. the clearer 4 pictures are of my recent alive one and the rest are of the old one. i apologize for the bad photo quality of the old photos but you can see it is clearly purple. as far as i know my shrimp are all healthy and behave normally the shrimp died right before i found it so it hadn't changed color because of that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimporama Posted February 7, 2019 Report Share Posted February 7, 2019 Hi Rowdy have any other shrimp died like this? I had 2 weird deaths like this in a tank a long time ago. I suspect it was poor immune health. How are your water parameters? Any Temperature fluctuations or pH fluctuations? I could not pinpoint the problem in my tank, but I started to feed bee pollen and spiralina powder weekly and occasionally bloodworms. I have not had any problems since. I know this is not a clear cut answer, but stress of any kind over time weakens the immune system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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