How much water change / top up you do? Shirmps are very sensitive to drastic change in the water parameterOriginally Posted by ahkarboy
How much water change / top up you do? Shirmps are very sensitive to drastic change in the water parameterOriginally Posted by ahkarboy
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
so what can i do when i change water to avoid this?
hi there,
btw what shrimp u keeping? IME, my yamato shrimps will swim to the water surface and swim very fast in the tank whenever i switched on the light and do water changes. Later then i found out they were hungry as there is no algae left in my tank, they are actually looking for food.
Cheers ,
Don't change so much water, about 1/3 should be alright. Shrimp are very sensitive to fluctuations in pH, chlorine, etc..
Most shrimps I kept before were very sensitive to changes in the water (like what Wackytpt suggested). Many years back when I uprooted quite alot of stem plant during a session of water change; exposing quite alot of laterite my yamatos behaved like the way you described and later all of them died with body turning red before they die. And boy they die really slowly..Originally Posted by ahkarboy
In the earlier days of keeping planted tank I did not use anti-chlorine (and all the anti this-&-that) and my shrimps would behave the same way. Some of them would die after water change along with some fishes. I remembered seeing a seemingly healthy looking boraras swimming across a jet of tap-water and immediately turned turtle and died !
After that lorba (I think) introduced me to use aqua plus from Nutrafin and the rest is history..
BTW if Nutrafin would like to pay me commission pls PM me. Thanks.
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