Blood Shrimp died right away after i brought it ho

[zorden]

Bought 2 blood shrimp home. One died after 1/2 hr when introduced it to the tank.. the other B Shrimp okay.

any idea what happen?

environment shock?

[diabolus]

My best bet is dat you got one thats about to die.

unless the other shrimp is also going to KO.

[blueheaven]

FYI shrimps are one of the most difficult to acclimatize animals

[veliferium]

may be they kana osmotic shock,i also recently got two scarlet cleaner,one died a few hours after introduction.the other one still living

[Achilles Tang]

Did you take the time to slowly acclimatize them to your tank water?

[zorden]

Did you take the time to slowly acclimatize them to your tank water?

u mean put the bag into the tank and slowly add tank water into the bag is it?

[djviper]

yup i think u should use the dripping method to acclimatize them . Adding main tank water slowly to your shrimp

[zorden]

add liao..

to be exact...got some other fishes..like NEMo, and others but no problem..

only the BS died straight away... I mean around 30mins or earlier

[veliferium]

i think bs is one of the most sensitive among all the shrimps

[Gouldian]

As per rest of the advises, shrimp are one of the most difficult to acclimatize livestocks, the rule of the thumb is that whatever methods you have used on your fishes in acclimatization. Incraese it by 2 x and you will not have them dying on you upon adding into you tank.

For me, I will float the bag for 20 mins after which, I will the bag (Shrimp & Water) into another small container and slowly drip my tank water into it.

When I check that the level of water into the container have increase by 3/4 vs the initial water from the bag. I will let it bubble for another 1/2 hours before adding to my tank.

[zorden]

shrimp are one of the most difficult to acclimatize livestocks

didnt know this.

thanks for the advice

[terryansimon]

I don't mean to boast.

but. I've had two batches of Fire Shrimps from Marine Life.

first batch, I did the acclimatisation process via dripping.

second batch, I dumped it into the tank directly without acclimatising *don't crucify me.*

both batches are still alive till today...

henceforth, all my other shrimps that I purchased were just dumped in with minimal acclimatisation *only floating of bags to allow temperature to achieve equilibrium.*

[hamannbmw]

Bought 2 blood shrimp home. One died after 1/2 hr when introduced it to the tank.. the other B Shrimp okay.

any idea what happen?

environment shock?

when i started this hobby 2 years back, i purchase 2 CS, one died immediately once i introduce into the tank w/o acclimatisation.. i mean immediately not even 5 sec, after i throw in the fellow kick once and up lorry liao i guess its due to poor acclimatisation or shock....

[Gouldian]

I don't mean to boast.

but. I've had two batches of Fire Shrimps from Marine Life.

first batch, I did the acclimatisation process via dripping.

second batch, I dumped it into the tank directly without acclimatising *don't crucify me.*

both batches are still alive till today...

henceforth, all my other shrimps that I purchased were just dumped in with minimal acclimatisation *only floating of bags to allow temperature to achieve equilibrium.*

Bro, what I believe happened to you is that the params in the bag and your tank is quite similiar thus, when you dump in - it does not cause any shock to the shrimp thus no problem.

Params, differs due to:

1. salt mix

2. level on ammonia, nitrite & nitrates

3. dissolve oxygens

4. DOM (Dissolve Oganic Materials)

5. Trace elements etc

[minsmarine]

I didn't know that shrimp is most difficult.

I was like simon also, never accumulate. Just let the plastic pack float for 20-30 mins and than just put into the tank.

Same method goes for 100% water change as well.

So far no shrimp loss ( other than I killed accidentally, rock fall on them ).

I used to have 2 BShrimp and 1 CShrimp.

Same for LS also, just float around for 20-30 mins and not LS loss, so far.

[zorden]

So far only 1 BS die only..

but need to say that when i introduce the BS that died, 2 fish "crowd" near the shrimp and they shrimp buzy working...

is it overwork

[zorden]

everything is fine except the BS.

but now got another question..

my COCO worm dosent seems to want to come out.

morning see it coming out a bit..

after work went home then see it hide inside.

what the temp for the worm?

so far most of the fish still active