Dead Sakura in purplish colour?

[Jervis]

Hi guys

I am in great distress after discovering a dead Sakura shrimp today. The body is blackish/purplish in colour.

Anyone has a theory on this?

Thanks in advance.

[Fuzzy]

very weird, you dosed some serious amount of iodine into your tank?

[Jervis]

very weird, you dosed some serious amount of iodine into your tank?

Yeah it's weird indeed. I can't find any related info from the internet

[ghim]

I had dead sakuras which turns purple. I suspect is some chemical poisoning. And it only happened to those shrimps that are bigger.

There was a site that describe on shrimp diseases, but now it is only in German. www.shrimp-diseases.com - this will direct you to the current german site which has links to help translate to other languages.

[mordrake]

did you intro anything new into the tank? did you wash your hands and arms before putting in tank?

[blue33]

Copper. Either you add trace that has copper in it or other form that has copper, food etc...