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Is age a factor when shrimps are dying due to bad water?
I bought shrimps in the summer and after 3 months the adults are weeding off. At this point, I have more babies than adults. I've read threads here of a massive die-off. I'm worried this might be the case here. So I'm wondering, if babies are more sensitive to poor water chemistry?

Adults tend to be more sensitive than babies actually. What did you mean by bad weather? Weather does not really have anything to do with water chemistry; what kinds of water problems are you experiencing?

Were the original shrimp adults when you first got them? If yes then it might just have been the wnd of their lifespan.

Neonshrimp wrote:Were the original shrimp adults when you first got them? If yes then it might just have been the wnd of their lifespan.

they were juvies. i'm assuming they reached their lifespan then.

thanks for the info!

The lifespan of most fresh water dwarf shrimp if 1-1.5 years.