I Keel Losing Ghost Shrimp

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So I have an established 10g tank that had four Ghost Shrimp, 2 Otos, and 2 Platys. A month ago (or so) I bought an AC30 power filter. I did use the filter media from my older filter until last night so that I could seed the new filter.

The first week I lost one GS to the filter intake, the following week I had another caught in the intake but he was alive (I was able to save him), the next day my large female was dead, and this week while vacuuming I found another male dead....

I don't know what is happening. All of my parameters are good. 0s across the board except nitrates which are around 10-20 ppm normally. pH is high, but always has been.

Any ideas?


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Sorry, should say I keep losing GS....


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[Fishfur]

How long have you had the shrimp ? They have relatively short life spans, certainly less than two years, some not much better than a year or 18 months. Yours may simply have been old.

 

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That could have been the case. We bought most of them about the same time. There is one left and he is the smallest male.

I need to pick up some new ones. I like having a clean up crew.


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[Fishfur]

You can breed them with a bit of effort. A 5 g tank is all you need to raise a few broods. Slow sponge filter and it should,have leaf litter, mosses also, for the baby shrimp to feed on.
They morph into shrimplets ,from larvae in 4-5 days. Feeding is a bit iffy, but microworms work,for,morphed ones, and liquid phyto works,for,larvae. Sorry for all the commas, not used to one finger,typing on iPad. Keep temp steady, about 72-76 F.

Put females in tank when eggs have descended really,low, remove after eggs are dropped.