My Shrimp Tank

[R_sustaita]

Yesterday at bed time (for me its at 10:30) i saw all of the remaining 5 having a meeting.

today in the morning at 7:00 am i counted all 5 again and they are moving more in the tank, but 1 of the berried females was hiding on the driftwood up side down. the one that did died was the biggest of all 6 and was berried. when i took it out i counted about 15-20 eggs. what a shame, but the remaining 5 seem just ok moving and eating the flake i give them.

i will get the kit soon. pay day is not near. also what can i feed them. i need to get more food for the other tank so i was looking to see what i can feed them instead of flake.

[Totenkampf]

The tank has been set up for about 2 weeks now.

He gave me 6 shrimp, i see 1 dead and 3 active, 2 may be on the back where i cant see them.

Tim tells me that berried females are the most likely to not survive the stress of a move, the only shrimp i lost out of the 40 that i received was a large berried female. i had shrimplets that were only an 1/8" in size that survived with no problems. on that note, man do they grow fast!

[Totenkampf]

i used water from my old tank simply because i knew it had the right parameters and was toxin free. i have read that inverts are typically very sensistive to chlorine and ammonia. any new tap water should be allowed to offgas chlorine before putting it into the tank. you can use an airstone to speed this up, a heater in there will help also since warm water has less capacity to contain dissolved gases. biomedia from an existing tank in the new filter will help the cycling process, as will running a new filter in an established tank for a while before setting the new one up. a test kit would be a good priority right now so that you can see whaen the nitrate spikes, this will mean the ammonia should be coming under control. an airstone in the shrimp tank might be a good idea right now too.

[Totenkampf]

Assassins would only eat what is already on their way out.

From my experience.

i have assassins in with my white pearls and they dont seem to bother the shrimp. now any exoskeltons or the one dead one i have lost havent lasted past lights out.

[R_sustaita]

Oh, crap. Well i did removed a holy rock i had on it and p,ace driftwood.

[eklikewhoa]

Water from an existing tank has little to no value, its just dirty water.

Beneficial bacterial films onto things, decor, substrate, media, etc.

[R_sustaita]

No livestock, the tank was mainly to house endler fry but i had not move the prenant fish yet. The shrimpmis the 1st livestock the tank has. Also i added watervfrom my main tank that had been with my livestock for almost a month.

[eklikewhoa]

Did it have any livestock prior? 2wks with no seeding or prior livestock would mean you are probably at the peak of a cycle.

[R_sustaita]

The tank has been set up for about 2 weeks now.

He gave me 6 shrimp, i see 1 dead and 3 active, 2 may be on the back where i cant see them.

[eklikewhoa]

I think I read that the tank is newly set up. Maybe you are getting spikes cause from me exp RCS are like roaches and can live just about any condition

[R_sustaita]

I dont have a full set yet. I need to buy one.

[eklikewhoa]

Other params play a role too... GH/KH/etc.

[R_sustaita]

Roy told me he uses straigth tap water and ph between 7-8 i am on 7.6

[eklikewhoa]

Have you tested your water params?

Also on that note have you compared it to the sellers water params?

[R_sustaita]

I thou they may had been the reason, as the other shrimp seem fine. I guess she was to stress to a new home with way less places to hide than its original home