Could someone please give me some advice on keeping shrimps. I've lost both of my cleaner shrimps (approx 6 weeks apart, the last one died 2 weeks ago) since I put them in a few months ago, and it looks like my fire shrimp has almost had it too.
Temp is 28°C, pH is 8.3, SG is 1.023, amm/trite/trate are 0, CH is 10, and I use RO'd water with a TDS reading of 2 - 14ppm (depending on containers etc.).
My tank is 35 gal, with 2" live sand, quite a lot of rock (which will now be live), 2 powerheads and an Eheim external canister wet/dry filter. I feed frozen mysis/gamma/brineshrimp and veggies once a day, which I would've thought would have got to the bottom for my shrimps. Maybe they weren't getting enough food? Although I tried to see if they were and they seemed to get a big piece every couple of days, and also pottering around on the rocks etc. during the day.
They all molted approx every 2 - 3 weeks.
Can anyone suggest anything? It's pretty disheartening when your new friends die on you for no apparent reason.
Temp is 28°C, pH is 8.3, SG is 1.023, amm/trite/trate are 0, CH is 10, and I use RO'd water with a TDS reading of 2 - 14ppm (depending on containers etc.).
My tank is 35 gal, with 2" live sand, quite a lot of rock (which will now be live), 2 powerheads and an Eheim external canister wet/dry filter. I feed frozen mysis/gamma/brineshrimp and veggies once a day, which I would've thought would have got to the bottom for my shrimps. Maybe they weren't getting enough food? Although I tried to see if they were and they seemed to get a big piece every couple of days, and also pottering around on the rocks etc. during the day.
They all molted approx every 2 - 3 weeks.
Can anyone suggest anything? It's pretty disheartening when your new friends die on you for no apparent reason.