Linwood
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I tried again, caught wild ghost shrimp, and over night every one died.
The last time was here:
Old Thread
This time I started with a new clean tank, sterilized with chlorine and rinsed and dried thoroughly. Brand new filter, brand new media, brand new hoses and fittings. Nothing from the old tank.
I cycled it from scratch - no seeded media. It's fully cycled, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites consistently for days, a big water change so nitrates are very low (about 5-10).
The water is a somewhat close match to the lake -- high 7's PH, TDS 270 vs lake 320. Lake not tested but tank is dKH=4 and dGH=7.
NO fertilizers or other additives, water is RODI reconstituted with Equilibrium and Alkaline BUffer, no other additives.
I brought about 30 shrimp home (along with a bunch of minnows) and acclimated them over a 3 hour period with drip-in tank water, until I had 2 x tank to the original 1 x lake water, then netted them and dropped them directly in the tank.
They all looked lively and happy when they got into the tank, and went to doing their normal activities. I put in a handfull of water wisteria so they would have something to hide in if desired.
By evening a few had died -- turned solid white and fell to the bottom.
By this morning every shrimp was dead.
Every minnow is alive and seemingly normal.
The fish are tiny -- there is no predation involved. The shrimp turned white and died.
This is a different freshwater lake than my last try; definitely fresh water not brackish (it's Lakes Park in Ft. Myers if anyone is interested; the prior was Harns Marsh holding pond in Lehigh Acres). Caught in a minnow net and straight into a bucket of their own lake water.
What the heck am I doing wrong?
The last time was here:
Old Thread
This time I started with a new clean tank, sterilized with chlorine and rinsed and dried thoroughly. Brand new filter, brand new media, brand new hoses and fittings. Nothing from the old tank.
I cycled it from scratch - no seeded media. It's fully cycled, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites consistently for days, a big water change so nitrates are very low (about 5-10).
The water is a somewhat close match to the lake -- high 7's PH, TDS 270 vs lake 320. Lake not tested but tank is dKH=4 and dGH=7.
NO fertilizers or other additives, water is RODI reconstituted with Equilibrium and Alkaline BUffer, no other additives.
I brought about 30 shrimp home (along with a bunch of minnows) and acclimated them over a 3 hour period with drip-in tank water, until I had 2 x tank to the original 1 x lake water, then netted them and dropped them directly in the tank.
They all looked lively and happy when they got into the tank, and went to doing their normal activities. I put in a handfull of water wisteria so they would have something to hide in if desired.
By evening a few had died -- turned solid white and fell to the bottom.
By this morning every shrimp was dead.
Every minnow is alive and seemingly normal.
The fish are tiny -- there is no predation involved. The shrimp turned white and died.
This is a different freshwater lake than my last try; definitely fresh water not brackish (it's Lakes Park in Ft. Myers if anyone is interested; the prior was Harns Marsh holding pond in Lehigh Acres). Caught in a minnow net and straight into a bucket of their own lake water.
What the heck am I doing wrong?