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Post your experiences that killed your shrimps!

Post by Cajunspice »

this is a thread for people to look back on where others made mistakes...
i had two unfortunate mysterious plagues that wiped out almost all of my shrimps, and i'm up to my second Renaissance :?

here are my culprits

1. forgot all about the DIY CO2 and allowed it to overflow into the tank, poisoning tank with the beer
2. adding calcium carbonate thinking it would benefit the shrimps, but in fact it killed them
3. not dechlorinating tap water
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Post by flash69x »

i had a very large mystery snail die, I have no idea how long it was dead before I noticed that most all of my shrimp were dead or dying in one corner. The ammonia spike from the very large rotting snail did them in. I was able to "save" 2 cherries out of nearly 100 and they were only a few weeks old. I think both are males so I'm going to have to get some more to start my breeding colony over. Its sad. So a leason to everyone, stay away from large snails!!!
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Post by Urkevitz »

A few months ago I noticed that I had hardly any cherries left in my 75 gallon. I was doing two things that could have killed them.

1. 50% water changes without adding dechlorinator.

2. Micronutrients which contained copper.

I using the micronutrients and started using dechlorinator. Now the shrimp population is booming.

I think the main culprit was chlorine, I noticed the shrimp swimming around the tank after water changes. I thought it was a good sign, but I guess they were just trying to get out.
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Post by TKD »

Not using cold water and letting it sit a room temperature so that I don't get a Copper problem.
Having rocks that were leaching Iron like crazy.

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Post by chlorophyll »

I may have had an algal overgrowth in my outdoor tank. Maybe the water lost too much Oxygen overnight, because one day I noticed everything had just dropped dead.
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Post by BlueEL »

Added a sea shell which caused a ph swing. All green shrimps were wiped out, Cherries slowly dying.
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Post by Kenshin »

1. Overfeeding
2. Used other dechlorinator besides and other bacteria solution (Stress
Zyme).
3. Used plant fertlizer containing copper
4. Used ice cubes to cool down my tank
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Post by bulrush »

Dumped the shrimp into my tank without acclimating them to slowly to my water first.
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Post by Lotus »

Added Algae Fix to a tank without thinking

Put some shrimp in with a mean betta
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Post by touie »

one amano climbed up the filter wire and out of the tank

missing bamboo, presumed dead but not sure what caused that! :(
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Shrimp killed

Post by badflash »

Severe pH swing to basic caused by using marble chips as substrate in my tank. Use something made of quartz or granite instead.
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Post by edmund1138 »

I used plant tablet fertilizer and wiped out a tank of RCS
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Post by xerxeswasachump »

Putting small bumblebee shrimp in a tank with mollies and a red claw macro.
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Post by Opopanax »

I wasn't careful enough in putting the shrimp from delivery bag into small quarantine tank. I dropped the bag and "lost" 3 shrimp that still have not been found:P
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Post by xerxeswasachump »

Opopanax wrote:I wasn't careful enough in putting the shrimp from delivery bag into small quarantine tank. I dropped the bag and "lost" 3 shrimp that still have not been found:P
I hate it when that happens. I convinced a friend of mine to get some amanoes for his 10 gallon tank. When we got back from the LFS we successfully got 2 in the tank and 1 jumped at the last second and dissapeared forever...
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