Mike Edwardes
Member
Three weeks ago I bought 5 cherry red shrimp. I brought them home and acclimatised them in the aquatic section of a large, mature paludarium. They seemed to do well at first, but over the last week they've disappeared and I've found two dead.
This is a large, heavily planted enclosure, running at around 40 ppm CaCO3, 22C. It does contain a fair amount of mulm but it also contains a single Amano shrimp which has been in there for years!
So the question is - why did they die? Is it reasonable to blame the treatment they received before I brought them home? Could the problem be related to moulting - how often do cherry red shrimp moult?
Am I a shrimp killer?
This is a large, heavily planted enclosure, running at around 40 ppm CaCO3, 22C. It does contain a fair amount of mulm but it also contains a single Amano shrimp which has been in there for years!
So the question is - why did they die? Is it reasonable to blame the treatment they received before I brought them home? Could the problem be related to moulting - how often do cherry red shrimp moult?
Am I a shrimp killer?