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Do you dose fertilizer for your plants?If you do,it may contain copper,which shrimps are sensitive to and even small amounts of copper may kill them.
Hi guys,
i am a newbie in planted tank, and recently just setup my 2ft planted tank in my office.. Has been runing my tank for about 3 week for now, and all the plant is growing and doing very well...
There is guppy inside living happily, but i seem to have porblem keeping cherry and other spices of FW shrimp inside my tank.. it just keep dieing after a few day i introuduce into the tank...
Can anyone advice what maybe the problem ?? Is it due to the PH ? i didnt add any PH addictive or done any tetsing on that..
However, all my fishes is doing very well.. except for the FW shrimp.. it puzzle me..
Need all the help over here..
thanks
Do you dose fertilizer for your plants?If you do,it may contain copper,which shrimps are sensitive to and even small amounts of copper may kill them.
You might need to add things like:
1.) What filter do you use? (though this is not a big deal)
2.) Do you dose with Excel - Shrimps die if this is not pre-diluted
3.) blink_willie's question - anything you dose the tank with, do tell
4.) Any other information you can add.
Never create what you can't control
Fertiliser in itself is not a problem, overdosing it or for some reasons plants can't use it efficiently may cause issues.
Are you adding a good number of mixed ages and sexes at a time?
I find that 20 to 25 is a good number to add and that half grown shrimps adapt better to new environments that all large old shrimp.
Have you washed the plants before placing them in the tank? There may be residual pesticides on the plants which can cause the shrimp deaths.Originally Posted by killerbee21
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Like my nano tank, there is a group of guppy
Added cherry ....about 12 to 14day the gone.....some due harrass by guppy, some stress and some hidding 24/7 day....end all gone
Not believe add large group again, same result.
Try again, Thing I did , cherry survive and breeding in my nano tank
1)Move guppy away to new tank, just leave only cherry there
2)Buy from source which healty and less stress cherry i.e. forum sell/trade
3) extremely slow to move them to tank and monitor the changes of temp as very important i.e. a least spend 3 hour
4)the tank must have 0ppm ammonia and nitirte i.e.there maybe some white tiny worm, snail, other bug...meant tank have micorganisma ...healty to shrimp
5)temp should less than 27c (cheery orig from cool place), if warm , dont think about it for having them
6)PH level is concern, they prefer more acid....lower PH
7)The dosage you put in is a matter. Quantum dosing and water change and lighting ....is diferent for everyone..... Just trial and error.
GH level from 3-6
9) they need calcium....boil spinarch vege help this.
10) place to hidding
11) the molting shrimp skin is calcium, leave it alone.
12) Too much algae , nitrite may need to check.
11) the molting shrimp skin is calcium, leave it alone.
I learn something new. Thanks
If you are able to answer one question with "Yes", an immediate change of the water is recommended. If no improvement comes around because of this, mostly an illness is the cause of the shrimp death.
- Is too little oxygen available?
- Are the water values correct? pH, GH, KH, nitrite, nitrate, CU?
- Did you have a water change recently?
- Did you buy new plants or shrimps?
- Did you have a treatment with medicine recently?
- Do you use liquid fertilizer or alga remedy?
- Are your shrimps behaving in a different way then usually? Are they sluggish or they eat anything anymore, for example?
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