OblongShrimp Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 lol very nice! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETAquarium Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Randy do you have your light on a timer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted September 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 You said think about the light....but you didn't mention anything about a light before. Were your shrimp behaving differently in the morning before the lights came on vs the evening when the lights had been on? Did what you did with the filter that day change your surface water agitation? Did you do anything else with the tank from the day they started dying till you figured out the problem (water changes or messing with the filter again)? Sorry, I assume most people have a light for a shrimp tank. Now the answer is out... you know why I said think about the light. And I didn't touch the light at all that day. The reason I found out on a Sunday morning was that my lights are all on timer from 7pm to 2am. And when the lights are on, the filter would be running. Sunday morning I turned on the light in the room, that's how I found out the filter wasn't running (since the timer was off). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETAquarium Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Randy do you have your light on a timer? Dang by the time I typed my question. You had an answer. randy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Lol ive done that too i lost a whole cherry colony before my dumb ass realized what happend randy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted September 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Lol ive done that too i lost a whole cherry colony before my dumb ass realized what happend Thanks, that makes me feel better since I'm not the only one ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davesays Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Woohoo! Unfortunately, I wasn't at the meeting. I would love to check out your collection, but I live in New York. =( The explanation is very plausible since we shrimpers tend to have many cords and surge protectors (lights, filters, heaters, fans, ect..), its very possible to plug your filter into the wrong outlet. With many tanks its very possible to overlook a downed AC, especially if the lights are already off. Thanks for the ROAK! randy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4n Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 dam I was going say the timer haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Never occurred to me since I don't use a timer. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Lol thats why you grow algae instead of moss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHe Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Lol thats why you grow algae instead of moss algae is good thing for shrimp, is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Yeah... Im just poking at bryce and his brown thumb Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted September 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 algae is good thing for shrimp, is it? Depends... not every has the same tolerance as I do ;-) JamesHe and miwu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Lol you even keep it on mesh lmao randy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHe Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Depends... not every has the same tolerance as I do ;-) Yummy! randy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblongShrimp Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 I was figuring it was something with low O2 I just hadn't figured out the cause of it yet. I have had that cause problems in a few tanks before when the airline gets plugged and the bubbles stop. The shrimp are usually fine when the lights are on because the moss produces O2 but once the lights go off they get unhappy. I lost a bunch of tiger shrimp a couple months ago when that happened. Deroyhott 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbarbee54 Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 I have not personally done this but caught a friend having issues with his tank, that did the same thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 Label your plugs, my friend! Too many plugs was one of the reasons I switched everything to air-powered. I am spoiled, man. I think I've unplugged it once in two years, not counting when I had to borrow the extension cord it was plugged into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woopderson Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 Dawww, Randy! Why wouldn't you let me spoil it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumpsmasher Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 I was figuring it was something with low O2 I just hadn't figured out the cause of it yet. I have had that cause problems in a few tanks before when the airline gets plugged and the bubbles stop. The shrimp are usually fine when the lights are on because the moss produces O2 but once the lights go off they get unhappy. I lost a bunch of tiger shrimp a couple months ago when that happened. Would the the lack of O2 have that profound effect on the shrimps? Always suspect it should a bit but never had a situation to confirm it - good to know. I use Oxydators in all my tanks - mainly started because the european breeders uses them but it comes come in handy whenever the power goes out. We get what they call "rolling blackouts" during the summers. Basically when the power load gets too high in the summers (usually during a heat wave) the government do controlled blackouts to certain communities to prevent an overload of the powergrid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicente Mcdonnell Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 They must be super good. Ellen Wang's tanks are practically overgrown with algae. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5VE53qGYmQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 I think it depends on the kind of algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted September 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 Dawww, Randy! Why wouldn't you let me spoil it? ;-) Someone actually got the answer though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted September 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 I think it depends on the kind of algae. That's one thing I never figured out. Most of the time, the "hair algae" that grows in my cycling process would get destroyed by shrimps after shrimps are in the tank, but if the algae stays for more than a week then the shrimps won't touch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woopderson Posted September 5, 2014 Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 ;-) Someone actually got the answer though...Next time....next time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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