Top reasons why shrimps die

[Ningning]

Originally Posted by Gowling

Quite impossible to know why it died...unless you look under the microscope to check for diseases brought about by poor water conditions.
As such , some of the cases stated are related.

u can test ph and the rest.. of coz.. if only one die then.. another story liao. i mean mass death..

[lucas_1957]

i think the pregnant female too weak is not really a reason. Because, if the female too weak, it must be because it is stressed by some other problem, like temp, pH, etc, so it should be not considered a reason.

[Gowling]

Originally Posted by Ningning

u can test ph and the rest.. of coz.. if only one die then.. another story liao. i mean mass death..

High pH does not kill CRS. Bad water condition does.

I ever kept them in pH 7.5 before.

[Exotic_chew]

Originally Posted by Gowling

High pH does not kill CRS. Bad water condition does.

I ever kept them in pH 7.5 before.

pH not a form of water condition? then wat pH level u measure?

[tanhann]

Originally Posted by Ningning

lol.. how to test ah?

only the pregnant one die lor.. tts how to test. LOL. tts why the shrimp tonic was created right?

btw, from my own deduction.. sakura and crs cannot really co exist together..

for crs to be nice, must low ph. too low, sakura die. tmd.

I oso deduce that sakura n Crs like cannot co-exist. None of my sakura can survive for long in my Crs tank which is housing many Crs and their offspring. In fact, my cherries population reduced significantly in my Crs tank.

[tanhann]

is it common to have one or two casualties out of the blue while the rest of them are doing fine? I don't believe it is any of the problems mentioned in the poll, coz if it is so, then shouldn't it be a major wiped out rather than just that single piece? If the casualty is weak, why does it die after such a long time in the tank? Long time as in months in the tank.

These casualties definitely do not look old to me, so I dun think is due to old age.

[Exotic_chew]

Originally Posted by tanhann

is it common to have one or two casualties out of the blue while the rest of them are doing fine? I don't believe it is any of the problems mentioned in the poll, coz if it is so, then shouldn't it be a major wiped out rather than just that single piece? If the casualty is weak, why does it die after such a long time in the tank? Long time as in months in the tank.

These casualties definitely do not look old to me, so I dun think is due to old age.

i do agree once in a blue moon 1 or 2 piece just die of unknown reason.

Originally Posted by tanhann

is it common to have one or two casualties out of the blue while the rest of them are doing fine? I don't believe it is any of the problems mentioned in the poll, coz if it is so, then shouldn't it be a major wiped out rather than just that single piece? If the casualty is weak, why does it die after such a long time in the tank? Long time as in months in the tank.

These casualties definitely do not look old to me, so I dun think is due to old age.

I agree. Probably, like human, one of them tend to get sick too. So not all shrimps are sick, only the one with illness will die out of the blue. Just my guessing.

[numbskull]

You can't assume your cherries or sakuras died due to low ph or in optimum crs water parameter. I ever kept sakuras AND cherries with crs in 6.3 ph before. It takes more than just low ph to kill them off. If your not a shrimp doc I believe it's impossible to know why they died.

Originally Posted by Gowling

High pH does not kill CRS. Bad water condition does.

I ever kept them in pH 7.5 before.

One of my tanks housing CRS is at ph 7.5. No obvious casualties.

One of my tanks at ph 5.5... low casualty (occasional deaths) but zero cherry & CRS shrimplets surviving after more than 10 separate berries.

I believe that ph is just only one of the factors for CRS, there are many others to worry about as well.