jscroppo56@gmail.com

Hello i have noticed my shrimp keep dieing after molting.also it is taking them a long time to molt.5 hours sometimes after they go hide and i notice them dead the next morning.this has happend 2 times both after molting i checked all levels nitrate 5ppm nitrite 0 gh 75 soft kh 150 ideal chlorine 0 ph 8.0 ammonia 0.25 ppm the shrimp are blue pearls and they are juveniles and they are in a 10 gal buy themselves. Only 8 now started with 12 please anything helpful !! I hate to see them all die

Zapins

There should be no ammonia if you keep shrimp. They are sensitive to it.

Not sure if that is causing the deaths, but it certainly isn't helping. More frequent water changes are needed.

jscroppo56@gmail.com

I do regular changes of 2 gal per week 20% of the water and also i restock the tank with water from petco for freshwater aquariums

h4n

Zapins is right there should be zero ammonia. Also Molting problems are usually from high Gh/KH leavels. I'm assuming your gh/kh readings are in PPM, So your gh is about 4 and kh 8.
So my guess is your KH is to high.

And what water from petco are you talking about?

jscroppo56@gmail.com

Yes i have heard the same how do you lower kh i was told that high kg and any level of ammonia can be really bad.even more toxic than high ammonia im doing 2 gal changes every day until the ammonia levels drop.the freshwater im talking about comes from petco in fish section its called freshwater one. I think it makes weekly water changes easy and no need for chemicals.i have it set up online from them so i get 4 2gal containers a month shipped to my house.

aquaman555

Sorry to hear about the problems unfortunately I would agree it may be due to high ammonia. Your tank probably isn't fully cycled yet. I would keep with the water changes. Also with shrimp it's not just about a tank being cycled it is also about it being established.

As far as the water goes me personally I would say you are wasting your money IMO. Unless if you have really bad tap water.

jscroppo56@gmail.com

Just pulled out 1 more dead shrimp...and see one more laying upsidedown trying to molt now.crazy thing i see 4 babie fishk the glofish i had in here must have bred.i took them back friday morning due to the big 1 attacking the molting shrimp.i guess ill jusg have to wait it out and see if they all end up dead...i hope not only have 6 left i guess i rushed thingsim going to try to get the kh lowered and keep with the water changes ill post test result of my tap water in the morning.

Zapins

Glofish are sterilized before they are sold to owners. Its probably not their babies.

vicky

If you have ammonia or nitrite you need to be doing more water changes. Unless you tap water is really bad, I'd use some to get rid of the ammonia. I see more shrimp problems from water that is too soft rather than too hard. But, hardness can raise pH, and ammonia is much more toxic with high pH, so you need to be even more careful. Do you have plants in this tank? Some fast growing stems or floating plants would help with the ammonia and give the shrimp places to hide.

jscroppo56@gmail.com

They cant be shrimp i think there glofish byt im not sure. Still to small to show up on my cam. I have lots of moss java and flame the thing is the shrimp dont molt in the moss.