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I have a 60P with a nice population of cherry shrimp in it. They have thrived in the 6 months that I have had the tank up. Their numbers have easily tripled.
I am retiring that tank for a 120P so that everybody has more room and so I can have a large school of tetras. The new tank is about a month old now and well planted with fern, sword, Crypt, Buce and Val.
The water is from the same source as in the other tank, tap water prepped with Prime. Chemistry is about the same now as my 60P. Temp is close. A few weeks ago I brought over biomedia from the 60P to seed the new tank and added bacterial starter. There are a couple of Nerites and numerous "guest" bladder snails, all doing well. These should be keeping the bacteria happy. I have a Purigen in my Oase filter. The tank water is exceedingly clear.
Problem: I have been attempting to slowly add shrimp to the new tank but many have died. Out of a dozen or so only three are still around. When I first put the shrimp in they run laps around the tank, seemingly agitated. Within a day or so they die. There is not a lot of algae yet but certainly a few melting leaves to eat. I drop in a bottom feeder wafer periodically which the shrimp usually enjoy.
I am at a loss the figure out why the shrimp would not have a smooth transition unless some of the hardscape is releasing copper or some other chemical. I admit that, thinking that the water was similar, I did not drip acclimate.
Any thoughts would be welcome...
I am retiring that tank for a 120P so that everybody has more room and so I can have a large school of tetras. The new tank is about a month old now and well planted with fern, sword, Crypt, Buce and Val.
The water is from the same source as in the other tank, tap water prepped with Prime. Chemistry is about the same now as my 60P. Temp is close. A few weeks ago I brought over biomedia from the 60P to seed the new tank and added bacterial starter. There are a couple of Nerites and numerous "guest" bladder snails, all doing well. These should be keeping the bacteria happy. I have a Purigen in my Oase filter. The tank water is exceedingly clear.
Problem: I have been attempting to slowly add shrimp to the new tank but many have died. Out of a dozen or so only three are still around. When I first put the shrimp in they run laps around the tank, seemingly agitated. Within a day or so they die. There is not a lot of algae yet but certainly a few melting leaves to eat. I drop in a bottom feeder wafer periodically which the shrimp usually enjoy.
I am at a loss the figure out why the shrimp would not have a smooth transition unless some of the hardscape is releasing copper or some other chemical. I admit that, thinking that the water was similar, I did not drip acclimate.
Any thoughts would be welcome...