Ok a quick update for those who have not read my previous threads.
I had 2 cherry shrimp in my 8gal nano along with rainbow shrimp and 2 red nose shrimp.I added a plant that must have had some kind of chemical and lost one of my long nose shrimp.Did a big waterchange and things went back to normal.
Then I added another plant but made sure I had rinsed it thourghly.Well it obviously wasnt enough as I lost both my cherrys and my long nose.The rainbows were fine both times although seemed a little stressed.Did another waterchange and left the tank for a few weeks and everything seemed fine.
Added 12 cherry shrimp after drip acclimatising them, in the first few hours I lost 3 of them.Then in the following week I lost another 3.Symptoms were swimming about restlessly and not eating.The remaining 6 seem healthy and eat when food is put near them.But the thing is they all gather at the top corner(as in the pic).Water tests fine(a ph of 6.6-7.2 ok for them?).The other inhabitants including rainbow shrimp and snails all seem fine.Am I missing something really obvious here?
Pic of the 6 remaining cherrys, they spend most of their time here occasionally sitting in the java moss near them and very rarely I see them moving about the tank, they tend to swim midwater though.
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Thanks in advance.
I had 2 cherry shrimp in my 8gal nano along with rainbow shrimp and 2 red nose shrimp.I added a plant that must have had some kind of chemical and lost one of my long nose shrimp.Did a big waterchange and things went back to normal.
Then I added another plant but made sure I had rinsed it thourghly.Well it obviously wasnt enough as I lost both my cherrys and my long nose.The rainbows were fine both times although seemed a little stressed.Did another waterchange and left the tank for a few weeks and everything seemed fine.
Added 12 cherry shrimp after drip acclimatising them, in the first few hours I lost 3 of them.Then in the following week I lost another 3.Symptoms were swimming about restlessly and not eating.The remaining 6 seem healthy and eat when food is put near them.But the thing is they all gather at the top corner(as in the pic).Water tests fine(a ph of 6.6-7.2 ok for them?).The other inhabitants including rainbow shrimp and snails all seem fine.Am I missing something really obvious here?
Pic of the 6 remaining cherrys, they spend most of their time here occasionally sitting in the java moss near them and very rarely I see them moving about the tank, they tend to swim midwater though.
Thanks in advance.
