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Ok, I changed 50% of my water and all of a sudden after that, my shrimps are hanging out on the suction cups of my heater and filter near the top of the tank. and if they swim, they jolt around and have a twitching motion then go back the to the suction cup, some are inactive, I don't know whats wrong, I added stress coat and flourish after the change, did the water change affect them? I have been doing 50% for 2 months with them in it. amano and cherry shrimp.

The swimming around and increased activity (and sometimes even sitting around) is normal after large water changes. They are reacting to the changed water chemistry. They will settle down after a while.

I have no experience with "stress coat" (I have never even used any of that in my 23 years of fishkeeping) but I would not recommend adding any unnecessary chemicals in the shrimp tank. "Stress Coat" won't do anything for the shrimp (nor does it do anything for the fish in my opinion) and can potentially harm them. Shrimp are just very sensitive to various chemicals. Why don't you just do more frequent small water changes and get rid of that bottle of "stress coat?"

Mustafa

ok thanks for that reply they are still there for a second day. I'll check back after like a day or so, my algae is growing and my shrimps are sitting.