[RyGonX]

I made a very similar mistake regarding molting,

I first got 12 cherry shrimps for 20 dollars online and they grew fine. However, I wanted something more exotic

I saved up 55$ and got 10 SS grade CRS and put them in my one gallon tank they were.4 inches when I got them, so quite young.

I over estimated their hardiness by changing their water every week and five of them died.

I panicked and thought it was the water hardness (my tap water is quite hard). So I used my Brita filter water.

At the first water from the Brita yielded very promising results 6.5 pH, almost no hardness, low kH, no chlorine. So i thought i hit a jackpot and began using that water.

Two days later i noticed one of my shrimps failed a molt and died, more followed the day after.

When I had only two shrimps remaining, I got very lucky and got the correct combination

Now i changed 40% of the water every three days and only use my tap water. My two shrimps are now doing very well

However i fear that I may have got two shrimps of the same gender and want reproduce anymore

 

[lamiskool]

meh worst mistake was a co2 accident where I almost gassed and killed my 200+ colony of cherry shrimp

 

[CoffeeLove]

Putting them in a dirted tank. They never seemed too happy. I removed the dirt and what a difference it made.

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[Tyveck]

I made a very similar mistake regarding molting,

I first got 12 cherry shrimps for 20 dollars online and they grew fine. However, I wanted something more exotic

I saved up 55$ and got 10 SS grade CRS and put them in my one gallon tank they were.4 inches when I got them, so quite young.

I over estimated their hardiness by changing their water every week and five of them died.

I panicked and thought it was the water hardness (my tap water is quite hard). So I used my Brita filter water.

At the first water from the Brita yielded very promising results 6.5 pH, almost no hardness, low kH, no chlorine. So i thought i hit a jackpot and began using that water.

Two days later i noticed one of my shrimps failed a molt and died, more followed the day after.

When I had only two shrimps remaining, I got very lucky and got the correct combination

Now i changed 40% of the water every three days and only use my tap water. My two shrimps are now doing very well

However i fear that I may have got two shrimps of the same gender and want reproduce anymore

Awesome story! Did you ever figure out why the filtered water was killing them?

 

[Whiskey]

My biggest mistake was using tap water, that held back my progress in this hobby for about a year. Even Cherry shrimp couldn't live in my 800 TDS water.

Once I got a TDS meter, GH test kit, and RO filter things went much better.

Whiskey

 

[AGUILAR3]

Putting them in a dirted tank. They never seemed too happy. I removed the dirt and what a difference it made.

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First time hearing this. There are a ton of Shrimp with dirt tank journals here on TPT and on Youtube and they are all thriving. They are mostly RCS though. What shrimp do you have?

 

[Tyveck]

First time hearing this. There are a ton of Shrimp with dirt tank journals here on TPT and on Youtube and they are all thriving. They are mostly RCS though. What shrimp do you have?

Same! The pH with a dirted tank would be near perfect. Thats very odd..

 

[RyGonX]

Awesome story! Did you ever figure out why the filtered water was killing them?

After researching and testing the Brita Filter appears to filter out calcium and other minerals (most of it). Without these minerals Shrimp will fail the molting process

 

[Tyveck]

That's a really good filter then! You may want to use that water but add in extra calcium and other minerals like shrimp+

 

[garfieldnfish]

Overfeeding in one tank. Overselling in another, taking the colony down too much and they had a hard time recuperating from it.
Water changes more than once a week. My tanks are heavily planted and whenever I do a water change it seems to disrupt the community. Also large water changes I found to be bad for the shrimp. Smaller, more frequent ones are better tolerated. I now only change out 10% every other week and the shrimp do better.

 

[Tyveck]

I have found that small water changes work the best too! :>

Overfeeding in one tank. Overselling in another, taking the colony down too much and they had a hard time recuperating from it.
Water changes more than once a week. My tanks are heavily planted and whenever I do a water change it seems to disrupt the community. Also large water changes I found to be bad for the shrimp. Smaller, more frequent ones are better tolerated. I now only change out 10% every other week and the shrimp do better.

 

[jimmytruong87]

My stupid mistake was I do not have a chiller and CRS is very sensitive with hot temp. Even though I have right parameter of the water, but my CRS started to die off one by one

 

[Dtran5]

My mistake was using Floramax as the substrate for my tank. It was my first planted tank. When I set it up, I knew nothing about shrimps or that I was going to keep shrimps in it. It was pretty moderately planted and looked pretty good overall for a first tank. I purchased 10 mid-grade CRS and, stupidly, only tested the gH and kH afterward. My gH was 8-9 and kH was 6-7. Tested the water out of the tap and both gH and kH were right in the range for CRS. I had no idea why the water sky-rockted once it was in my tank. After some research, I read from a few posts on here that apparently some batches of Floramax were contaminated with something calcium-based and it would leach into the water. Once I changed out the substrate with FSS, everything was fine, and the shrimps seem to be doing much better now. More shrimplets and more pregnant shrimps.

 

[Tyveck]

My mistake was using Floramax as the substrate for my tank. It was my first planted tank. When I set it up, I knew nothing about shrimps or that I was going to keep shrimps in it. It was pretty moderately planted and looked pretty good overall for a first tank. I purchased 10 mid-grade CRS and, stupidly, only tested the gH and kH afterward. My gH was 8-9 and kH was 6-7. Tested the water out of the tap and both gH and kH were right in the range for CRS. I had no idea why the water sky-rockted once it was in my tank. After some research, I read from a few posts on here that apparently some batches of Floramax were contaminated with something calcium-based and it would leach into the water. Once I changed out the substrate with FSS, everything was fine, and the shrimps seem to be doing much better now. More shrimplets and more pregnant shrimps.

Substrate is very important! It weird how things like that can happen though!

 

[Charlieeex3]

My stupid mistake was I do not have a chiller and CRS is very sensitive with hot temp. Even though I have right parameter of the water, but my CRS started to die off one by one

Mine did too last week! But I purchased a fan and now zero deaths so far

 

[Polarize]

Not caring about GH. In my experience, GH is more important than PH. Also, another mistake was trying to do too much, causing too many sudden changes and consequently stressing out the shrimps.

 

[greenteam]

I purchased 5 Cherry shrimp from LFS at $4 a pop. Tossed into my community tank and they fish made a meal of them before the shrimp could even figure out what was going on.

 

[Subtletanks91]

Not cycling the tank getting to excited and throwing 50 rcs in there. Tap water. And not understanding it fully before diving into it.

 

[sewoeno]

My mistake was using Floramax as the substrate for my tank. It was my first planted tank. When I set it up, I knew nothing about shrimps or that I was going to keep shrimps in it. It was pretty moderately planted and looked pretty good overall for a first tank. I purchased 10 mid-grade CRS and, stupidly, only tested the gH and kH afterward. My gH was 8-9 and kH was 6-7. Tested the water out of the tap and both gH and kH were right in the range for CRS. I had no idea why the water sky-rockted once it was in my tank. After some research, I read from a few posts on here that apparently some batches of Floramax were contaminated with something calcium-based and it would leach into the water. Once I changed out the substrate with FSS, everything was fine, and the shrimps seem to be doing much better now. More shrimplets and more pregnant shrimps.

holy crap! i used floramax also and i swear it killed everything i put in the tank! i switched it to my community fish tank and they aren't very happy after months and twice a week water changes. its insane.

my mistake was like everyone basically. used tap with extreme tds, took a couple months to figure that one out.