help! my female cherry 'gave' birth to babies...when the babies came out, they were swimming alright for a while..after that, they just had spasms and swam upside down and quickly from bottom of my 1ft tank to top...after that, they sorta swim to the bottom and next morning when i wake up, all of them are no where to be found. i suspect they are dead i already did a 90% waterchange when i saw the first baby shrimp..wat conditions do they need and how do i prevent babies from dying??
Welcome to the forum. Sorry your intoduction is a cry for help.
My guidelines are never to do more than a 50% water change and don't do that more than every other day. Having babies is a reason to delay water changes, not do a massive one.
Most of the time the problem is doing too much, not doing too little. Too much feeding, too many chemicals, too much water change. 20% once a week is what I do. I have more shrimp than I need.
thanks everyone for replying..however i have noticed the babies are swimming around and after awhile they disappear..i have checked my filter and there is nothing.....so i assume they all died. are there any tank conditions which i have to keep?
Are you sure they're not just hiding? Baby shrimp can be incredibly hard to see in a tank, even harder if it's heavily planted or if the substrate is a brownish or reddish color. When I first had babies in my tank, it would take me 15 minutes just to find one of them!
I'm assuming you don't have fish in this tank, otherwise, they babies are likely in the fishes' bellies.
nope its purely shrimps...i have attached a pic... i am also thinking of whats missing for my tank so i welcome any opinions..maybe i'll buy more cherries soon when my tank is more matured..i bought 5 cherries from LFS now im left with 2..
Sound like all your shrimp are dying . Before you get more shrimp, let your tank settle down for 2-3 weeks. Add some snails and feed them just a little. This will allow the bacteria to get started.
Until you get a proper bacteria level in your tank, the shrimp will be sick.
Go to the "shrimp Varieties" and read up on the needs of your shrimp, then go to the articles section and read all the shrimp articles.