Aiko Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 so over the last few months its been a learning curve, I started out with 20 shrimp and am now down to 5 young adults and 2 adult shrimp and no new shrimp for a while now starting to think all I have left are males at this point should I just start over? I started off with tap water but a few months ago I switched over to RO I had another death about a week ago and now I have 2 shrimp that have white insides I don't even know what to do anymore really all my readings are good but I still have deaths and now with the infections should I remove the shrimp I have no where to put them MableBile and JosephKex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCruise Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Hi, Sorry to hear of your troubles. Could you elaborate a bit more? What kind of shrimp are they? RO water is good, as long as you are re-mineralizing, otherwise they can't absorb nutrients for their shells and molting can become a hazardous proposition. What do you mean by white insides? How are you measuring pH? Meter, strips, liquid drops? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiko Posted September 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 I use SL blue aqua re minerlizer with my RO my shrimp are neos (dream blues) my ph is 7.0, more ammon is 0, nitrite 0 nitrate 5ppm API test set directions followed for nitrate for a real reading my TDS is 184 temp 74f troubles well got my shrimp in late jan early feb, started them in cycled tank with tap water, started over feeding cause I didn't know better got that under control next trouble hydra got rid of them the whole time I was having shrimp die here and there. changed to RO water I still have shrimp dying now the white stuff the.. cream filling it looks like 2 are filled with white by what I have read its a bacteria infection? just trying to figure out what to do for here all my tests and stat point I should be fine but everything seems to be going wrong wondering if I should break it all down =( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiko Posted September 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Anyone have any ideas what I should do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimple minded Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Can you provide a pic of the suspect shrimp? Did the previous adult shrimp that died off have the look of infection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiko Posted September 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 the others shrimps that died looked normal, most the shrimp have died slowly 1 by 1 over months very sorry its a bad pic all I have is my crappy iphone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35ppt Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Gosh, I am sorry you have had such a tough time. Sounds like you have had stability issues, plus maybe not healthy shrimp to start? I wish I had the answers for you, but I don't have any direct experience with bacterial stuff. If I had to guess, I'd think about removing the cloudy shrimp and treating the main tank. On some color shrimp it seems hard to see if it is bacterial, but the your blues really do look different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Looks bacterial for sure. Have you tried kanaplex? I haven't had to use it myself yet, but bought it just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolutionhope Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 ive not got the same level of experience as many here but i have to say it looks exactly like an issue i had. i had a blue cherry with muscular necrosis - caused by stress from suboptimal water conditions. i swear it looked exactly the same as your shrimp does... said shrimp lasted months after i noticed the white insides.. but never recovered and i eventually euthanised it as a precaution before setting up the tank for a new variety. this sticky on skf is a fairlu comprehensive list. it includes pictures and may be helpful to you- http://shrimpkeepersforum.com/forum/topic/5052-shrimp-diseases-and-diagnosis/ love n peace will ps i think muscular necrosis (caused by bad water conditions) would be consistent with your gradual losses of shrimps over time. if i were you personally i would do one huge water change to fix things up in one hit. u could do many small WC but when i tried to fix my issues by constant small WC it stressed out my shrimps more and totally killed off all breeding activity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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