Help, my shrimplets always disappear the next morning

[vernonlcm]

I did not rear any fish and although i am using hang on filter, i had it covered it with micro sponge.
Mine is a 1ft cube tank and every morning, there would be around 2-3 dead shrimp so i highly suspect my shrimplets may also be dead.
I had quite a few mosses so presume finding food for the shrimplets is not a problem to them right?
I had an aquarium fan which keeps the temperature around 26-27 degree and i am rearing CRS with Cherries/Sakura. Is the Cherries that are pregnant.
My ph is around 6-6.5 as i am using gex soil. I did add in nutrifying bateria to help bring down the ammonia and nitrate and i do wc once a week.
Can it be due to copper? I do not have any test for the copper and i can't really buy all the test kit to test out so need your advice in what could be the likely cause. I always see shrimplets and they will all disappear the next day.
Any comments will be greatly appreciated.

could they be hiding? then again, if you are finding 2-3 shrimps dead every morning, chances are your shrimplets are gone as well. how long has your tank been cycled?

Originally Posted by rainman

could they be hiding? then again, if you are finding 2-3 shrimps dead every morning, chances are your shrimplets are gone as well. how long has your tank been cycled?

In additional to Bro Rainman... how much of water that you change each week? Change to much water may cause dead of the shrimplets too...

sometimes when u add fishes or what

then u start pouring the water from the packet

to the tank as well....

It might contain copper~thats what lfs always

will add to their tanks...

So It might over kill ur shrimp one by one

r there any plants in ur tank?
too much plants, they will ambush here n there.
or... like some bros said in tis thread also true.

[vernonlcm]

I suspect is planeria... I caught one in my tank yesterday. I think they are responsible for my shrimplets and some shrimps death. It may be due to my overfeeding as i normally feed them twice a day. Not sure would there be many more of planeria in my tank? No idea how planeria started off into my tank as i just started my tank and the gex green soil 2 weeks ago. Can anyone help?

[ahloy]

i dun think is planeria.. shrimplet will usually be too fast for them to catch.. unless ur shrimplet is sick..

the source of ur problem might be from the feeding.. is the food alway finish up? or do they build up in the gravel?

and the soil.. u just added 2 week ago? meaning it is not full cycle and soil usually take 1month to be shrimp ready..

do a check on ur tank water perimeter..

Do water really need one month to cycle?

So if after one month ,means the water is

perfect that we can start dumping the shrimps in?

Seriously , as long the water condition is consider

no more traces of ammonia and those harmful elements

It should be all right to start putting living creatures in.

I really cant figure the theory of one month cycle

came from which expert in the field of fishkeeping

[elimmel]

1 month is just a ball park figure, not a hard and fast rule.
it may take 10 days, 2 weeks or your tank may never even complete cycling. it all depends on how and what the hobbyist is doing.

so assuming the cycle is done the traditional way (intro ammonia via food or fish), it should be complete by the 3rd wk. 1 month is to give extra leeway since shrimps are pretty sensitive fauna.

[ahloy]

Originally Posted by ilovefish22

Do water really need one month to cycle?

So if after one month ,means the water is

perfect that we can start dumping the shrimps in?

Seriously , as long the water condition is consider

no more traces of ammonia and those harmful elements

It should be all right to start putting living creatures in.

I really cant figure the theory of one month cycle

came from which expert in the field of fishkeeping

week 2 of gex soil (if new) is usually still giving out ammonia.. and it is best to cycle the soil for around 1month.. where by it will stop letting ammonia during tt pharse..

tt y i recommand 1 month for soil user to cycle their tank.. sometime it will take longer for the ammonia traces to be gone..

and as u can see, TS is having problem with the life stock in his tank.. and i seriously believe is the water perimeter the main cause of the problem..

TS should do a check and we will noe.. i might be wrong then.. but it is alway better to be save then to be sorry as shrimp are very sensative creature towards water perimeter..