jledermann

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Bag arrived today. Nothing out of the ordinary. Going to LFS to get a nice branch of drift wood and Im firing up the tank tonight!

photos aren't the best but you get the picture... if I get these things figured out with what is going on in my tank I'm going to set up a breeder box and try and get the blue to breed true.

photos aren't the best but you get the picture... if I get these things figured out with what is going on in my tank I'm going to set up a breeder box and try and get the blue to breed true.

photos aren't the best but you get the picture... if I get these things figured out with what is going on in my tank I'm going to set up a breeder box and try and get the blue to breed true.

photos aren't the best but you get the picture... if I get these things figured out with what is going on in my tank I'm going to set up a breeder box and try and get the blue to breed true.

thanks for the suggestion, I think its a combination of the GH getting a little too high via Bacter AE so I'm bringing it down, and some sickness brought in by buy shrimp from RB. Funny thing when I first saw the green growth my google search brought up the last page of that thread you guys directed me to. If only I read the first 2 pages and saw the experiences other people had directly associated with shrimpusa.com I probably would have shipped the shrimp right back to him and said no thank you. I thought maybe mine was just bad luck and isolated. Wont buy from members not associated or approved by this forum again... NOW I KNOW

I have super princess bee shrimp and I'd say 15-20% of them have a blue shine/tint on the black portion of their body, I was considering starting a program to try and line breed the blue to be more dominant but my tank is currently in flux. Will try and provide pictures soon

thanks for the suggestion, I think its a combination of the GH getting a little too high via Bacter AE so I'm bringing it down, and some sickness brought in by buy shrimp from RB. Funny thing when I first saw the green growth my google search brought up the last page of that thread you guys directed me to. If only I read the first 2 pages and saw the experiences other people had directly associated with shrimpusa.com I probably would have shipped the shrimp right back to him and said no thank you. I thought maybe mine was just bad luck and isolated. Wont buy from members not associated or approved by this forum again... NOW I KNOW

The following thread may shed a little light on what James is alluding to. The entire thread is worth a read, but you may find page 2 particularly illuminating.
 
http://www.shrimpspot.com/index.php?/topic/3386-the-green-fungus/?hl= green fungus

Hey guys I know theres tons of these threads but I need another brain on this one. As an engineer I know sometimes all I need is another view point to bring it all together so here goes.
 
I have a 29 gal tall shrimp tank that has housed CRS and super princess bee shrimp for about 2.5 years now and a 10 gal for cherries and OEBT. I kinda let the tanks go over my extremely busy summer and over the past 2 months been working on getting them back to tip top shape. My super princess bee colony had exploded and out competed the CRS and ultimately made the CRS colony dwindle so recently I've been purchasing some new CRS blood to add to the tank.
My water parameters are fine, nitrate nitrite and ammonia all at zero, TDS 140-150 and GH 4-6 KH 0-1 temp at 74 degress F.
Now what has been happening is for about the last 2 months I've been using glassgarten products bacter AE shrimp dinner and shrimp baby and my shrimp seemed to be doing great, have great color, are breading and are very active, however I have been finding anywhere from 1-5 dead shrimp on the bottom of the tank every day for a few weeks now! I feed once a day to once every other day. I can trace it back in my memory to be right around when I received some shrimp from Shrimpusa.com, I purchased some CRS of various grades and some Bloody Marrys. One of the bloody marrys showed signs of some sort of parasite, looked like green branches sticking down below the tail and no it WAS NOT EGGS I made sure. Needless to say that one did not make it into any tanks and my concerns were raised at that point. I put the CRS and remaining bloody marrys into my tanks and went on with my business. A few days later a CRS or 2 and a bloody marry in the other tank had died, nothing out of the ordinary maybe just stressed from the shipping and didnt make it, however it did not stop there. A few cherries and OEBT then passed away along with a few more of the princess bee over the next few days. All the bodies seemed to be turning very red from about the tip of the head to mid way thru the body of the shrimp. The cherries and OEBT have seemed to level off and the consistancy of deaths has seem to tail off and the shrimp appear to be doing fine. Ive done a few 20-40% water changes on the 29 gal tall and it seems to not matter the deaths continue.
Is the discoloration a sign of something?
I use tap water that comes out at about 6.5 ph and 40-50 tds so i remineralize it with salty shrimp to about 130-150 before I put it into the tank.
I use excel usually on a regular basis only dosing below recommending amount. 
Is there a tell tail way to know theres a bacteria present effecting the shrimps?
I know hardness usually effecting molting and most people describe being able to identify a molting problem by the shell stuck to a dead shrimp, I have not seen any of that, is there another way to identify this issue? could the water be too hard?
I recently received some fissidens fontanus on stainless steel mesh but I've had the mesh in the tank prior and it caused no harm but I did cut some off and use flourish glue to fix it to drift wood. Has anyone ever had bad effects from super glue or this flourish glue on shrimp?
 
Sorry this is so long winded but I'm just trying to throw all the factors out there to try and help someone make a judgement. 
Please feel free to ask any more questions or for clarification I would love to get to the bottom of these and possibly help some people in the community with similar issues
  

I think you've got it! Thanks!

Maybe princess bee shrimp?
 
https://www.google.com/search?q=princess+bee+shrimp&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=925&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAGoVChMIvcTR7MTexwIVBaMeCh1-6wEL&dpr=1

Hello! I'm new to the forum and always wondered if there was a specific name for these shrimp I found in a LFS. I got them without a name over 2 years ago and they are quite hardy, agressive and have done very well in my tank. Thanks!

Hello! I'm new to the forum and always wondered if there was a specific name for these shrimp I found in a LFS. I got them without a name over 2 years ago and they are quite hardy, agressive and have done very well in my tank. Thanks!