Thank you Mark for creating this video. I had a bacterial infection last year that wiped out all of my shrimp. This video would be helpful for new shrimpers.
Excellent advice and video - I struggled for about a year searching for the reason why I had mystery deaths in one of my tanks and success with the others. Turned out to be bacterial infection and once I treated it - its a whole new tanks in just 1 months - babies showing up and shrimp eating like ravaged animals. I have a long post on Mark's Facebook group - Aquarium Shrimp Keeping - which I recommend also.
Hi mark, thanks for the great video. I've done everything and I'm going to have to do antibiotics as a last resort. Do you know where I could find the dose for baytril? Thank you
From antibiotics I used doxycycline and if you want avoid it as its really last step. You can use TCP (the same we use at home). TCP it's safe to use even in very expensive shrimp tank
Can you please elaborate on TCP? What is it exactly? I'm ready to drop out of the aquarium realm at this point. Going to consider it a bad investment if these shrimp deaths continue. We lost one of our perfectly healthy _Dario dario_ due to the introduction of medication early on in our assault on the bacterial infection. My wife still feels the pain of losing a healthy Scarlet to needless medications. He was gorgeous for a nano cichlid. I have several pregnant shrimp in what is supposed to be our Quarantine tank, which has now turned into a nursery. I'd hate to just keep breeding and introducing more and more shrimp to a tainted tank. Meaning that they'll grow out in the healthy QT and likely have a short life span once they're transferred into the tainted-planted display tank. That's just not right and I cannot ethically do such a thing. The only reason I persevere is because I refuse to be beaten by a mere pathogen. "Either I win or I learn - but I never lose". I'm also partial to the the balance that has finally been struck between algae and plant growth. The plants appear to be winning at this point. Thanks in advance for your help. Keep up the good work my friends.
Thank you for the video. Blue Dream Tank was just about getting better with a few berried moms (my first experience) but then, I spotted shrimp that were dying with tummy area with greenish yellowish on it and I pulled him out while searching what it was but I was too late and he passed away. Then, a few days later, I spotted shrimp 2 of them that turned bit cloudy neck down,which I thought was clear area (lighter blue shrimp) and darker one also had cloudy look from neck down. I was not sure if I were dealing with milk disease or muscle necrosis or bacterial infection. I removed suspected 2 and put them in specimen container and put hydrogen proxide and next day, both passed away in the container. 3-4 days later, I found one berried mom that was fine in the morning was upside down and passed so, I saved eggs and hatched baby shrimp. I have about 5-7 adult shrimp and about 5-8 baby shrimp in shrimp only tank 10 gallon (with one nerite snail that stopped moving and went to nap after returning him back into the tank after 6 weeks from Hydra treatment). I was told, if it were muscle necrosis, it is not contagious so leave t hem in the tank but internet search tells me different things.What are difference between the 3 diseases I mentioned above;milk disease, muscle necrosis, and bacterial infection? The shrimp that passed with cloudy neck down after hydrogen proxide did not have red head and berried mom passed recently did not have red head either. so, it was muscle nectrosis and not bacterial infection?Is the muscle necrosis contagious? If it were bacterial infection, I like to try all water flush out and put the new water back in;#2 method you said.But when you fill the tank up, the water is from different cycled tank or fresh tap water with prime? Thank you.
Hi, I am sorry I ask this in the wrong video, but I can't find one about Scutariella Japonica. I found this in one of my 6 shrimp that I keept with corydoras in an quarantine aquarium. My question is: after I give the shrimps a saltbath and remove their molts, can I put them back with my fish after a week? Thank you.
Hi Mark! Looking for your advice. The use of antibiotics: is it better to treat shrimp in a quarantine tank to avoid damaging cycle? Or does it need to be used in the tank? Thanks, Dave
Hello Dave, I treat mines in the tank because often when the shrimp do die they eat each other and the bad bacteria are spread everywhere, antibiotics is the last resort though.
Marks Shrimp Tanks cheers marks. I followed your advice weeks back performing complete water change. Had a few deaths over the last couple of days, so doing large water changes again. If not I have just received some oxytetracycline from china, as gaining antibiotics in the U.K. Is a pain in the ass!
If you think a shrimp has bacteria infection but most of your shrimp are ok, can it be just that the weak will die or will bacteria just work it’s way through your stock?
Hello from Michigan USA Mark. Awesome videos. I love all your videos. Great information, appreciate it man. What is your favorite food to encourage breeding?
Hello Joe, It was bloodworm but I have had alot of people tell me there is a lot of risk in using it because its typically collected in areas that are polluted and thats not something I really want my shrimp to eat, Right now I use Pure Nordics Amino Stix once a week but I am not sure they are still making it so I might have to look for an alternative again :(
Do you have a list of your preferred packaged foods? I have seen all you videos on foods but you always say they are trials id like to know your go to list or if I did somehow miss a video could someone link me?
Hey mark thanks for all your tips ! been helping a lot, was wondering if you have any idea why my RCS are not breeding ? Perfect temp and levels for them lots of algee and food all healthy and a tropical almond leaf in there! im so confused.
feed more protein, I was having a similar issue in my big cherry tank , so I upped the protein food from once a week to twice a week and I have lost of berried shrimp now :)
Is the white ring of death a sign of bacteria infection? I had read and assumed I had a calcium deficiency in my tank because I was seeing the white ring on a couple shrimp, but after dosing some calcium and adding a cuttle bone to my filter I'm still seeing it a bit. Some seem to have healed from it, though, which is great.
The biggest pest in my tank is snail's. What is the best way to get rid of the little bliters. Unknown where the came from I am thing some flame moss thatch bought.
My shrimps r suddenly jumping weirdly in unusual pattern getting cloudy body and dying while my baby shrimps are tend to be perfectly fine my adults r rapidly dying have chged the full water accumulated but still.some r showing the sign hv separated them what to do ?
I have an issue, I’m new to shrimp keeping and wanted to put them in my Community tank so I started with just 3 what my fish store said are Bloody Mary shrimp. I’ve had them for about 3 months now and all is well. They hide a lot of time and I was planning on ordering more. But lately they started to come out more and more and yesterday I saw one and it’s turning a blue/black color. Is something wrong? Or is this common? I have asked in about 3 Facebook communities for shrimp with no help. The other one is as red as can be. Help me please! I do have pictures!
Hello, yeah I have the same issue, i have 5 blue neos that after a little while turned into red shrimp so they must not always breed true and stay the same color.
my tanks been up for 2 years now and I still havel a few caridina blue bolts in there. But because they aren't breeding I wanted to try a caridina species. The shrimp arrived in the mail 3 weeks ago in that time 3 shrimp have died you could say 1 shrimp a week. I didn't know new shrimp can't handle the bacteria of other shrimp colonies.I started reading into it and now I'm starting to panic. I've looked in forums but everyone seems to contradict eachother. I'm wondering if it really is that or maybe the transport from the shop to my home was too stressful. I acclimated the new shrimp with a dripline in 4 hours. Do you have an idea what the cause may be?. I use reverse osmosis water. PH 6,6 KH 2 GH 7 Temperature 22-23 degrees Celcius. I did a 50 percent water change today and added more almond leaves and alder cones. I would really like to be sure it's a bacterial intollerance or infection if those are even the same things before putting them through the stress of moving them into a bucket and acclimating them again.
Hello Lilly, It could literally be anything thats killing them to improper handling before you got them to imperfect water conditions, shrimp keeping is a bit of a hit and a miss, can I ask are you dripping your water changes back in ? if not that makes a huge difference.. I do mine now so slow it takes a whole day to change 10% in one tank.
@@MarksShrimpTanks Hi Mark, thx for responding so fast. I don't use the dripline method when I do water changes, but I do add like half a liter then wait 10 mins and add some more water but it doesn't take all day. Are Neocaridina also that sensitive when it comes to water changes? I always make sure my water temperature is the same as in the tank and i do a TDS check of the osmosis water to be sure the parameters are close to being the same. The fresh water always is between 290-320 microsiemens the tank has 340 microsiemens. The shrimp were shipped in the mail with express shipping they also had good insulation and a heat pack but I suppose being shipped in the mail is pretty stressful nevertheless. Should I rather wait before doing huge waterchanges to reduce the bacteria and do smaller weekly water changes instead? At the moment I was doing 30 percent water changes every 2 weeks. I did a larger one now a week after the last one just in case they are dying from a bacterial infection. I'm kind of torn apart as what to do now, not being sure what's going on.
Thats about 100 liters of water you have so your dose is that divided by 3 which is roughly 30, so you would need to doise 30ml 3% h202 directly into the tank with filters switched of for an hour :)
Thank you Mark for creating this video. I had a bacterial infection last year that wiped out all of my shrimp. This video would be helpful for new shrimpers.
Excellent advice and video - I struggled for about a year searching for the reason why I had mystery deaths in one of my tanks and success with the others. Turned out to be bacterial infection and once I treated it - its a whole new tanks in just 1 months - babies showing up and shrimp eating like ravaged animals. I have a long post on Mark's Facebook group - Aquarium Shrimp Keeping - which I recommend also.
How do you solve rust disease? Should I do my 100% water change?
nice info. how about shrimp getting diseases (bacterial or parasites) from fish ? or using medicines designed for fish ?
Hi mark, thanks for the great video. I've done everything and I'm going to have to do antibiotics as a last resort.
Do you know where I could find the dose for baytril? Thank you
Great video, thank you Mark. Great tips for keeping the shrimps happy and healthy.👍😀
From antibiotics I used doxycycline and if you want avoid it as its really last step. You can use TCP (the same we use at home). TCP it's safe to use even in very expensive shrimp tank
Thank you for sharing that , another one to add to the list :)
Can you please elaborate on TCP? What is it exactly?
I'm ready to drop out of the aquarium realm at this point. Going to consider it a bad investment if these shrimp deaths continue. We lost one of our perfectly healthy _Dario dario_ due to the introduction of medication early on in our assault on the bacterial infection. My wife still feels the pain of losing a healthy Scarlet to needless medications. He was gorgeous for a nano cichlid.
I have several pregnant shrimp in what is supposed to be our Quarantine tank, which has now turned into a nursery. I'd hate to just keep breeding and introducing more and more shrimp to a tainted tank. Meaning that they'll grow out in the healthy QT and likely have a short life span once they're transferred into the tainted-planted display tank. That's just not right and I cannot ethically do such a thing.
The only reason I persevere is because I refuse to be beaten by a mere pathogen. "Either I win or I learn - but I never lose". I'm also partial to the the balance that has finally been struck between algae and plant growth. The plants appear to be winning at this point.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Keep up the good work my friends.
Very good knowledge shared right there! I'm glad to have you in the shrimp keeping community :)
Mark, what are the signs and symptoms of bacterial infection in my shrimp?
deaths,cloudy bodies, red in the heads
Thank you for the video. Blue Dream Tank was just about getting better with a few berried moms (my first experience) but then, I spotted shrimp that were dying with tummy area with greenish yellowish on it and I pulled him out while searching what it was but I was too late and he passed away. Then, a few days later, I spotted shrimp 2 of them that turned bit cloudy neck down,which I thought was clear area (lighter blue shrimp) and darker one also had cloudy look from neck down. I was not sure if I were dealing with milk disease or muscle necrosis or bacterial infection. I removed suspected 2 and put them in specimen container and put hydrogen proxide and next day, both passed away in the container. 3-4 days later, I found one berried mom that was fine in the morning was upside down and passed so, I saved eggs and hatched baby shrimp. I have about 5-7 adult shrimp and about 5-8 baby shrimp in shrimp only tank 10 gallon (with one nerite snail that stopped moving and went to nap after returning him back into the tank after 6 weeks from Hydra treatment). I was told, if it were muscle necrosis, it is not contagious so leave t hem in the tank but internet search tells me different things.What are difference between the 3 diseases I mentioned above;milk disease, muscle necrosis, and bacterial infection? The shrimp that passed with cloudy neck down after hydrogen proxide did not have red head and berried mom passed recently did not have red head either. so, it was muscle nectrosis and not bacterial infection?Is the muscle necrosis contagious? If it were bacterial infection, I like to try all water flush out and put the new water back in;#2 method you said.But when you fill the tank up, the water is from different cycled tank or fresh tap water with prime? Thank you.
Did you ever figure out what to do to save your shrimp?
Do you vaccum substrate in a caradina tank or does this cause problems?
I dont vacuum at all
Hi,
I am sorry I ask this in the wrong video, but I can't find one about Scutariella Japonica.
I found this in one of my 6 shrimp that I keept with corydoras in an quarantine aquarium.
My question is: after I give the shrimps a saltbath and remove their molts, can I put them back with my fish after a week?
Thank you.
I read online it was okay to feed cherry shrimp Tums for calcium. I was wondering if this is okay?
I have heard this before but never used them to be honest,
Hi Mark! Looking for your advice. The use of antibiotics: is it better to treat shrimp in a quarantine tank to avoid damaging cycle? Or does it need to be used in the tank? Thanks,
Dave
Hello Dave, I treat mines in the tank because often when the shrimp do die they eat each other and the bad bacteria are spread everywhere, antibiotics is the last resort though.
Marks Shrimp Tanks cheers marks. I followed your advice weeks back performing complete water change. Had a few deaths over the last couple of days, so doing large water changes again. If not I have just received some oxytetracycline from china, as gaining antibiotics in the U.K. Is a pain in the ass!
Its the same here, We are not even allowed to order anything medical online now that has to come across the border.
If you think a shrimp has bacteria infection but most of your shrimp are ok, can it be just that the weak will die or will bacteria just work it’s way through your stock?
Great video Mark,looking forward to my healthy shrimp food parcel from Norway👍
Dear mark! Do you know how to beat hydra in a tank? I have this pest :(
em the best way is with a product called noplanaria , next best is a snail..spixy snail I think they are called ,they eat them.
Hello from Michigan USA Mark.
Awesome videos. I love all your videos. Great information, appreciate it man.
What is your favorite food to encourage breeding?
Hello Joe, It was bloodworm but I have had alot of people tell me there is a lot of risk in using it because its typically collected in areas that are polluted and thats not something I really want my shrimp to eat, Right now I use Pure Nordics Amino Stix once a week but I am not sure they are still making it so I might have to look for an alternative again :(
Do you have a list of your preferred packaged foods? I have seen all you videos on foods but you always say they are trials id like to know your go to list or if I did somehow miss a video could someone link me?
marksshrimptanks.ecwid.com/Nettle-Mix-Shrimp-Food-p88372065
Pure Nordic is my go to ,I do have my own range but its not complete yet :)
Hey mark thanks for all your tips ! been helping a lot, was wondering if you have any idea why my RCS are not breeding ? Perfect temp and levels for them lots of algee and food all healthy and a tropical almond leaf in there! im so confused.
feed more protein, I was having a similar issue in my big cherry tank , so I upped the protein food from once a week to twice a week and I have lost of berried shrimp now :)
Marks Shrimp Tanks ok do you have a reccomemdation for that ? I been feeding them pellets every day which they destory and they have lots of algee
Is the white ring of death a sign of bacteria infection? I had read and assumed I had a calcium deficiency in my tank because I was seeing the white ring on a couple shrimp, but after dosing some calcium and adding a cuttle bone to my filter I'm still seeing it a bit. Some seem to have healed from it, though, which is great.
No I think thats caused by overfeeding high protein foods, the shrimp grow fast but if they are not ready you see the ring :)
Have you tried just droping a piece of orange peal in your tank for about an hour?
beth98362 R I've seen where they put a half of an orange in a guppy tank, but do a water change immediately after.
Yes I have tried it before for a week , I am not sure it does anything but I could see how it would work :)
Sooo what's the best shop bought food to get for shrimp?
I would say my own food but its not a complete range, the other brand I use all the time is Pure Nordic
I have a yellow shrimp that has a hole looking spot on it’s carapace.. none of my other shrimp have any signs like this.
It might grow out of it in the next molt I have had the same thing on a bluebolt before and it was ok after.
The biggest pest in my tank is snail's. What is the best way to get rid of the little bliters. Unknown where the came from I am thing some flame moss thatch bought.
best way I have found is manual removal , yo can use drugs to kill them but I am not fond of that practise because they can take weeks to die off
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super helpfull video!!
My shrimps r suddenly jumping weirdly in unusual pattern getting cloudy body and dying while my baby shrimps are tend to be perfectly fine my adults r rapidly dying have chged the full water accumulated but still.some r showing the sign hv separated them what to do ?
Have you tried hydrogen peroxide for bacterial infection? I have used it with positive out come.
Yes I love H202 I did a video on it a few weeks back
How much did you use please? How many times do we use it ? I have a 20 litre tank
Great video, Mark. Mark Peggie, king of Shrimp
I have an issue, I’m new to shrimp keeping and wanted to put them in my Community tank so I started with just 3 what my fish store said are Bloody Mary shrimp. I’ve had them for about 3 months now and all is well. They hide a lot of time and I was planning on ordering more. But lately they started to come out more and more and yesterday I saw one and it’s turning a blue/black color. Is something wrong? Or is this common? I have asked in about 3 Facebook communities for shrimp with no help. The other one is as red as can be. Help me please! I do have pictures!
Hello, yeah I have the same issue, i have 5 blue neos that after a little while turned into red shrimp so they must not always breed true and stay the same color.
my tanks been up for 2 years now and I still havel a few caridina blue bolts in there. But because they aren't breeding I wanted to try a caridina species. The shrimp arrived in the mail 3 weeks ago in that time 3 shrimp have died you could say 1 shrimp a week. I didn't know new shrimp can't handle the bacteria of other shrimp colonies.I started reading into it and now I'm starting to panic. I've looked in forums but everyone seems to contradict eachother. I'm wondering if it really is that or maybe the transport from the shop to my home was too stressful. I acclimated the new shrimp with a dripline in 4 hours. Do you have an idea what the cause may be?. I use reverse osmosis water. PH 6,6 KH 2 GH 7 Temperature 22-23 degrees Celcius. I did a 50 percent water change today and added more almond leaves and alder cones. I would really like to be sure it's a bacterial intollerance or infection if those are even the same things before putting them through the stress of moving them into a bucket and acclimating them again.
Hello Lilly, It could literally be anything thats killing them to improper handling before you got them to imperfect water conditions, shrimp keeping is a bit of a hit and a miss, can I ask are you dripping your water changes back in ? if not that makes a huge difference.. I do mine now so slow it takes a whole day to change 10% in one tank.
@@MarksShrimpTanks Hi Mark, thx for responding so fast. I don't use the dripline method when I do water changes, but I do add like half a liter then wait 10 mins and add some more water but it doesn't take all day. Are Neocaridina also that sensitive when it comes to water changes? I always make sure my water temperature is the same as in the tank and i do a TDS check of the osmosis water to be sure the parameters are close to being the same. The fresh water always is between 290-320 microsiemens the tank has 340 microsiemens. The shrimp were shipped in the mail with express shipping they also had good insulation and a heat pack but I suppose being shipped in the mail is pretty stressful nevertheless. Should I rather wait before doing huge waterchanges to reduce the bacteria and do smaller weekly water changes instead? At the moment I was doing 30 percent water changes every 2 weeks. I did a larger one now a week after the last one just in case they are dying from a bacterial infection. I'm kind of torn apart as what to do now, not being sure what's going on.
How do I tell if my shrimp are suffering from a bacterial infection?
Kelly Carpenter for me I started seeing deaths and their heads were bright red and mushy.
deaths,cloudy bodies, red in the heads
If I'm going to use vitamin c to treat bacterial infection do I throw a whole orange in my tank or a vitamin c pill?
I wouldnt use ether without more testing in an empty tank, just to see what it does to the water first.
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İ couldn't get the dosage? How many drops for 25 gallon tank?
Thats about 100 liters of water you have so your dose is that divided by 3 which is roughly 30, so you would need to doise 30ml 3% h202 directly into the tank with filters switched of for an hour :)
@@MarksShrimpTanks you are the best
Mark, I did it. I started my own channel for my tanks. I called it Bob Moss Nano Tanks. Check it out if you have a minute :)
First
somehow i lost interest in the hobby, now i dont know what to do
It might come back to you I am the same with fishing.
haha, yes i used to be obsessed with fishing, now i just do it casually
Whats funny is I still buy loads of fishing gear hahahaha