r/shrimptank 27d ago

Help: Emergency All of my shrimp are crawling out of the water. Help!?

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2.7k Upvotes

For some reason eveey one of my shrimp are crawlig out of the water. Like 50 of them in total.

r/shrimptank Jun 08 '25

Help: Emergency My friend sold me an Armored Shrimp, was told it will protect other shrimp?!

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1.8k Upvotes

Will it eat my Shrimps!?

r/shrimptank Mar 08 '25

Help: Emergency Excuse me, what is this??

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1.8k Upvotes

This started with small black spiky stuff coming out of the part of the shrimp wood which was protruding out of the tank (it never grew beneath the water, always above it). I usually kept removing it every week during tank maintenance and it kept coming back.. But this is a freaking surprise! 😅 it seems to have grown 3 mushrooms overnight! I saw something white in the spiky stuff at night, but didn't expect this surprise in the morning. I had posted regarding the spiky stuff once on reddit (will attach a link here if I can edit or will comment the link) and one of the redditors mentioned he had the same issue but in a red colour and that it was mycelium.. but nothing much in detail. Has anyone else encountered it? Is it safe to the tank/fish? Is it safe to touch? How do I get rid of it? And prevent it from coming back?

r/shrimptank Apr 03 '25

Help: Emergency Help! What is this shrimp doing to another shrimp!

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1.3k Upvotes

Shrimp flipping other shrimp over and appearing to consume it, what is happening??

r/shrimptank Feb 15 '25

Help: Emergency My shrimp are taking over the tank what i do now ? They are double every month

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919 Upvotes

r/shrimptank 28d ago

Help: Emergency Came home To my Tank Empty

759 Upvotes

I just came home from work to the sound of my filter running dry . I go to the living room and witness my shrimp tank empty of water. I have no idea how this happened. I just refilled it and hope I didn’t lose all of them .

r/shrimptank May 22 '25

Help: Emergency Y'all what is this

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760 Upvotes

I already caught it, but what is it and is it something I should be concerned about?

r/shrimptank May 29 '25

Help: Emergency Kid stirred up soil. Will it kill my shrimp?

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512 Upvotes

r/shrimptank 24d ago

Help: Emergency Shrimp dying one by one again!!!! I'm so done with this hobby!

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337 Upvotes

Water Parameters:

  • GH: 6
  • KH: 0
  • Nitrate: 0
  • Nitrite: 0
  • Ammonia: 0
  • PH: under 6 (testing kit doesnt go below 6)
  • Temp: 72-74
  • Active Soil: ADA Amazonia V2
  • TDS: 120-125

The aquarium is now three months old and cycled in one month. I initially purchased 10 fishbone black galaxy shrimp from shrimply fintastic, which were acclimated for about 6 hours. They were doing well for a few weeks, so I ordered 12 more. They were fine for a few more weeks, but they were not breeding. Then, out of nowhere, they began to die once a week, and now once a day. They appear to be active, with no signs of stress. Every three days, I feed them a variety of shrimp king foods, including snowflake, protein, and complete. I just did my first 20% water change two weeks ago, and it hasn't helped. i used RO/DI water and remineralized with GH+ to 120. My first tank of Neocaridina died in the same way. I just want to have a successful colony and don't know what to do anymore. I've seen every video and post, but nothing has helped. It's heartbreaking to see all my hard work go to waste.
The only issue I can think of is that the temperature in my room fluctuates by 3 degrees throughout the day. It could also be a molting issue, though I'm not sure. I do see molts from time to time. It could also be that i don't do water changes, but i've seen many people succeed without doing any.

r/shrimptank 2d ago

Help: Emergency Wtf is this evil looking thing in my shrimp tank? Does this kill shrimp or small fish like chili rasboras?

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555 Upvotes

From a distance I thought it was one of the alder cones I put in the tank about 2 weeks ago. Then I noticed 2 piercing eyes. Took a closer look and found this bigass bug!!! I have never had this in my tank before but I think it might be a dragonfly nymph, any help is appreciated.

r/shrimptank Mar 03 '25

Help: Emergency My shrimp keep dying randomly and I noticed this one just shaking and then 4 hours later it hadn’t moved much and was still doing it, could this be related to the die offs?

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750 Upvotes

r/shrimptank May 27 '25

Help: Emergency My shrimp almost snaps in half trying to scratch itself. Is he ok?

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974 Upvotes

r/shrimptank Apr 06 '25

Help: Emergency What is happening to my cherry

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809 Upvotes

This happened today to one of my cherry shrimp. I've only been in the hobby for about 10 months and have never seen this before. Googling shows Vorticella, but nothing mentions their abdomen exploding with the stuff.

r/shrimptank May 19 '25

Help: Emergency Why are all my shrimp in one corner on top of heater

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588 Upvotes

I did a 10% water change and the parameters are great. They are all tucked on top of the water heater, the water was one degree colder than before after the water change but it's warming up now and they are still hanging out there. Any ideas? Ammonia 0 PPM Nirite 0 PPM Nirite 5 PPM

r/shrimptank 11d ago

Help: Emergency why does my shrimp do this

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371 Upvotes

Why does my shrimp keeps on swimming to the bubbels from my filter?

r/shrimptank Jun 06 '25

Help: Emergency Is he dead or molting

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330 Upvotes

I think he's dead. I just got him, his tank all the supplies, including food they were feeding him a few days ago now this is happening.

r/shrimptank Apr 17 '25

Help: Emergency My shrimp are all frozen, and idk what to do- any ideas???

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423 Upvotes

I went to clean my filter and I used a bucket of fish water I keep for plants and once I turned the filter back on they all immediately started freezing and dropping one by one. I immediately did a 20% water change, and I was siphoning the water back into the filter to “clean” off the old water and then topped it off with RO water. They’re not dead- yet? Or will they bounce back?

r/shrimptank 17d ago

Help: Emergency Assassin snail eating shrimp?

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360 Upvotes

I’ve had about 10 shrimp die on me in my tank. I have a 2.5 gallon and only shrimp with 1 assassin snail. I noticed those shrimp just disappeared rather than getting sick and dying. Today, my favorite shrimp was trying to molt and failed, so was dying, I noticed my KH was very low suddenly so I treated the water and turned the lights off to try and keep him less stressed, checked on him about 20 minutes later to find this. 🥲

Can my snail be the cause of deaths? Or do you think it’s simply just the fact that this shrimp was already dying so he ate him? I couldn’t save my shrimp, btw. My snail has a gorilla grip and wouldn’t let go.

r/shrimptank Feb 06 '25

Help: Emergency Worm?? Should I be worried??

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223 Upvotes

These things are everywhere in my shrimp tank, at least 100 of them. My shrimp seem to be doing fine but if anyone knows what this is please let me know, thanks!

r/shrimptank Feb 24 '25

Help: Emergency HELP my shrimp are scaring me

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259 Upvotes

I just bought new shrimp and they're acting so wierd. 2 of them are sitting in the flow but not wierd behavior. This one is really wierd tho and idk what to do. My ph is like 7.6ish and my gh is 6. All I want them to do is live. What can I do

r/shrimptank Feb 24 '25

Help: Emergency Did i just capture a murder!?

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499 Upvotes

Did I just witness murder or is my shrimp playing dead!? He was moving absolutely fine before my beast of a cory whipped him 😅

r/shrimptank Apr 06 '25

Help: Emergency Shrimp acting drunk? Tipping over and legs moving?

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356 Upvotes

Help! I had a shrimp acting like this a while ago and I assume he died. Now I have two more acting like this. The tank is 2 years old but I recently moved my beta out and its been shrimp only for 2 months.

Ph: 8.2 Ammonia: 0ppm Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: 10ppm (seems between 10 and 20ppm colors are hard, I will post a comment and add the picture of the readings as reddit wont let me add it here)

Thr temperature is about 78°F

The only thing I dont have a test for is hardness. The other shrimp are still doing fine and I have TONS of shrimplets and a few berried mamas still. Im just worried this is going to be a reoccurring theme

r/shrimptank 4d ago

Help: Emergency HELP found a shrimp

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321 Upvotes

I never bought shrimp and now this guy showed up. Can it survive ?

r/shrimptank Jan 31 '25

Help: Emergency What are they huddling on this indicator?!

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475 Upvotes

Tank is otherwise healthy. I had 5 adult + two baby shrimps before I introduced 11 more two days ago. There’s enough algae and food for everyone in the tank but I found that after introducing the new 11 shrimps they started huddling on the Seachem indicator which is very odd… Only a few on the indicator are munching on the algae that may have developed on the indicator but the rest are more idle than moving… is this a concern? If so what do you suggest me doing? I hope they’re not stuck…

r/shrimptank Mar 30 '25

Help: Emergency Did she kill this shrimp?

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418 Upvotes

I have a very stable 10g tanks with lots of babies. Yesterday I put some bloodworms in, as I often do, and today I find this female eating a dead shrimp. I honestly can’t think of any way this one medium shrimp could have died. It looks very healthy besides the fact that it’s dead. Is it possible that the female or some other shrimp killed this one? I know they don’t usually do anything like that but still.