Help with Red Cherry Shrimp deaths...
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:22 am
Hi everyone, I am a noob with shrimp keeping, but wanted to see if you guys can help me solve of figure out problem of dying red cherries
I have a mature ten gallon heavily planted tank. I had 17 RCS (now down to 8 unfortunately), two ottos, two singapore flower shrimps, and 5 bee shrimp.
I got my shrimps a month ago, and in last two weeks, my cherries seem to be dying one a day, and I can't figure out why. All other inhabitants seem to be doing well.
PH 7.4
0 Ammonia
20 ppm nitrates
0 nitrites
Temp 78F
Water changes of 10-20%/week, with new water being heated to 76F before I put it in the tank. I use Prime to treat tap watter before hand, and let water sit in a clean bucket for 2-3 days before I put in the tank.
I am pumping in CO2, and drop checker is almost always showing green, except for one day last week where it went up to yellow for less than a day.
I am dosing all Seachem liquid ferts, premixed so that I have Comprehensive, Pottasium, Phosphorous, Nitrogen, and Iron at their recommended beginner dosage levels 2x a week. No Flourish Excell. I used to just take the premixed solution and squirt slowly into my filter, but since that tested to be pretty acidic, I've just recently been mixing it with 2 cups of aquarium water before putting into aquarium.
Feeding sparingly once every 2-3 days (3-4 hikari crab meal pellets) to supplement the algaea that is int he tank.
I just can't figure out why it's just my cherries that are impacted by whatever it is that is causing the deaths and my bee shrimp (which I thought were more sensitive) are okay. Of my cherries, I had two very small babies that seem to be ok, its the adults that have died so far.
Thanks for your thoughts.
I have a mature ten gallon heavily planted tank. I had 17 RCS (now down to 8 unfortunately), two ottos, two singapore flower shrimps, and 5 bee shrimp.
I got my shrimps a month ago, and in last two weeks, my cherries seem to be dying one a day, and I can't figure out why. All other inhabitants seem to be doing well.
PH 7.4
0 Ammonia
20 ppm nitrates
0 nitrites
Temp 78F
Water changes of 10-20%/week, with new water being heated to 76F before I put it in the tank. I use Prime to treat tap watter before hand, and let water sit in a clean bucket for 2-3 days before I put in the tank.
I am pumping in CO2, and drop checker is almost always showing green, except for one day last week where it went up to yellow for less than a day.
I am dosing all Seachem liquid ferts, premixed so that I have Comprehensive, Pottasium, Phosphorous, Nitrogen, and Iron at their recommended beginner dosage levels 2x a week. No Flourish Excell. I used to just take the premixed solution and squirt slowly into my filter, but since that tested to be pretty acidic, I've just recently been mixing it with 2 cups of aquarium water before putting into aquarium.
Feeding sparingly once every 2-3 days (3-4 hikari crab meal pellets) to supplement the algaea that is int he tank.
I just can't figure out why it's just my cherries that are impacted by whatever it is that is causing the deaths and my bee shrimp (which I thought were more sensitive) are okay. Of my cherries, I had two very small babies that seem to be ok, its the adults that have died so far.
Thanks for your thoughts.