Tpshrimper Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 Taiwan bee has dramatically lost color in the past 3 days, appears to look milky which sounds like a sign of a bacterial infection? This is also a tank I've had serious problems with shrimplet deaths... Ph 6.4 Gh 5 KH 0 Tds 120 Nitrates 5ppm No ammonia or nitrites Temp 74 No big changes recently, added leaf litter but nothing that I can think of that would be a stressor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyzazz Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 Well, he certainly looks washed out. Did you boil the leaf litter before adding to the tank? Your water parameters look fine, how often do you do water changes and how much do you change? How large is the tank? One thing you could try is lowering the temp, bacteria thrive at higher temperatures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpshrimper Posted February 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 10 gallon tank, do about 20% once a week. Leaf litter boiled, went ahead and lowered the temperature to see if that will help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyzazz Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 You honestly shouldn't need to change your water that often, but then again I don't know what your stocking is like. Currently I do mine 10% every 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyzazz Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 What type of substrate are you running, out of curiosity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aotf Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 Good to see that you've lowered the temperature on the tank (to what?). That might help the spread of the infection but this shrimp may already be toast. My experience is that if you can tell that there's something wrong with a shrimp, they are not going to recover 90+% of the time. Have you quarantined this shrimp yet? Get him out of there! If it is a bacterial infection, large water changes over the next couple days are you friend. You want that bacterial stuff gone. If it's not, you might be unnecessarily stressing out your shrimp. Decisions decisions. wyzazz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis118 Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 Whats the desired temp to keep them at? Mines around 72.5. Been debating on lowering it to 71 or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyzazz Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 I keep mine at room temp, right now that's around 67.5F in each tank, in the summer it's around 70F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpshrimper Posted February 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 I've got it down to 72, you think I should go lower? It's SL Aqua Soil. I've got a 17 gallon right next to it with pretty much the same setup (just more filtration) at 74 with no issues and a ton of baby red taiwan bees and berried mamas. This tank is MADDENING, don't think I'll do anything smaller than a 17 gallon again. The shrimp is acting fine, I'm going to keep an eye on him for 24 hours before I do anything drastic. At least this will be a good learning experience going forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyzazz Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 Not necessarily, keep an eye on him and ensure your water parameters stay in line. The last thing you want to do is go changing things so much that we stress the little guy out even more. If you feel like lowering it helps after tomorrow you can try lowering the temp again very slowly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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