Baby shrimp mass died

**Youngming** · 10th Jan 2015, 16:31

Got a bag of 10 fire red with 5 berried yesterday afternoon and introduce them to my tank with proper procedure. This morning I found lots of baby shrimps buried into the substrate and died. Left a few hanging around. All the 10 adults are doing well only 2 of my CRS died maybe due to the w.c I did yesterday morning. Can someone pls tell me whats happening? Is this normal?

**tingfeng** · 10th Jan 2015, 16:35

Any tank photos to take a look?

**Youngming** · 10th Jan 2015, 17:06

Sry on the poor picture.

**Urban Aquaria** · 10th Jan 2015, 18:36

Most likely they just died of stress and shock to the new environment... shrimplets are alot more sensitive than adult shrimps, they can't adjust to changes as quickly.

Its also very likely the berried shrimps were in a stressed state when introduced to the tank, then they dropped the eggs or hatch the shrimplets prematurely, which ended up in most of them dying.

Hopefully with your next batch of shrimplets, they will have more time to develop in the berried shrimps and hence better adapted to your tank conditions when they are born.

**tingfeng** · 10th Jan 2015, 19:51

Might be due to not much hiding space?
I dont have this problem, and my sakuras are breeding quite oftenly.

**Youngming** · 12th Jan 2015, 04:39

Originally Posted by Urban Aquaria

Most likely they just died of stress and shock to the new environment... shrimplets are alot more sensitive than adult shrimps, they can't adjust to changes as quickly.Its also very likely the berried shrimps were in a stressed state when introduced to the tank, then they dropped the eggs or hatch the shrimplets prematurely, which ended up in most of them dying. Hopefully with your next batch of shrimplets, they will have more time to develop in the berried shrimps and hence better adapted to your tank conditions when they are born.

Thanks UA for the reply. Tend to agree on the stress state. Hope the next batch will have a higher surviving rate.

**mUAr_cHEe** · 12th Jan 2015, 08:27

Originally Posted by Youngming

Hope the next batch will have a higher surviving rate.

Just do your maintenance diligently and I think your hope will become a reality.

**tingfeng** · 15th Jan 2015, 13:42

Hi Youngming
How is your tank now?

**Youngming** · 17th Jan 2015, 19:37

1 female dropped her eggs and the other 1 died with the eggs 2 days ago. Currently am performing artificial hatching of eggs. Hope it works.

**Youngming** · 19th Jan 2015, 23:45

Hurray!!! Manage to hatch the eggs artificially. Got around 10 babies inside so far. there are still unhatch eggs and also some rotten eggs =(
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