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garothmaan
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 Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 7:38 pm Post subject: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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Hello guys
I have dropped 12 Shrimps in my planted tank, this week end and I see only 2. Suddenly all others have disappeared.
I had dropped 9 amano shrimps also I saw 5 dead and suddenly 4 appeared next day and after that day I see none 
WHERE ARE THEY! WHERE ARE THEY !    |
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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| Shrimps will eat other dead shrimp. If they died and got stuck between plants the other shrimps will eat them whole in a few days... you wont find any of them. Any other fish in the tank? |
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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+1 Preetham,
IME, shrimps are especially vulnerable when they molt. I have lost many of my cherry shrimps when I had them with neon tetras and fancy guppies. Personally, I've never seen any of the fish bother them, but I wonder what happened after lights out. Even a curious fish can alarm them enough to jump to their deaths. Amanos though larger in size, might have the same vulnerabilities.
Even when I had them in a separate tank, I did the blunder of introducing assassin snails to get rid of some pond snails, and slowly my shrimp numbers started going down  |
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garothmaan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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| I have small endlers, I saw 3 today and 1 dead. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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Amanos walk, I learnt it the hard way. In a new tank they tend to get out if the water level is high and they find something to climb onto like wood. I found most of mine all over the house, thankfully alive  |
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garothmaan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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but do they return back to tank?  |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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Please install signboards directing them to tank please. They go out for a walk and cant figure out their way back :D
Also check if you are dosing something which is causing shrimp loss. Shrimps tend to lose color in new tank until settled and camouflage in to the plants sometimes making us believe they are disappeared, |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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| You "dropped" them so much. Maybe they dropped their lives for you! |
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garothmaan
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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| shyamhegde wrote (View Post):
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Please install signboards directing them to tank please. They go out for a walk and cant figure out their way back :D
Also check if you are dosing something which is causing shrimp loss. Shrimps tend to lose color in new tank until settled and camouflage in to the plants sometimes making us believe they are disappeared,
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 2:44 am Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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| Did you figure answer for this mystery ? |
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garothmaan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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| shyamhegde wrote (View Post):
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Did you figure answer for this mystery ?
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No 
where could they go where could they go :unsure:
Its impossible to find them, I have river sand, 2 pieces of driftwood and 12 endlers and 3 algae eaters
Now please anyone can tell where they could be? |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:58 am Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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Your Algae Eaters must have had them for lunch & dinner.
Thuds |
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garothmaan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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| Thuds wrote (View Post):
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Your Algae Eaters must have had them for lunch & dinner.
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but algae eaters are herbivorous
but its amazing, not a sigle 1? not even any sign?  |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: SHRIMPS disappearing |
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| garothmaan wrote (View Post):
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but algae eaters are herbivorous
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Not really  , except oto cats I don't trust any other algae eaters
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but its amazing, not a sigle 1? not even any sign?
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But in this case though I doubt your water parameters than fishes.
Dead matter tend to increase nitrate ammonia levels drastically, It's better to remove dead shrimps and fishes.
Check for NO2, NO3 and NH4 if those are high it can be fatal for shrimps but most fishes can be a bit hardy.
Other case may be accidental contamination. I recieved hc mat once and thought of planting it the next day, so floated it on my 4 footer to see nearly 1000's of dead cherry shrimps the next day. The farm from which I bought the hc tend to use ferts that are rich in Cu which I came to learn the hard way. |
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