missing crs

[_kai_]

hi bros i need some help. i bought 10 crs and after 2 nights i woke up to find there are only 3 or 4 left. my tank is not heavily planted and i checked for casualties but there were no dead bodies nor were they hiding in my plants. i covered my filter with spare filter wool but they still disapear!pls help

wats ur setup? and the water perimeters?

[wenjun]

Bro, best if you could take a picture of your tank and show us.

Trouble shoot your water parameters.

[nglianwah]

What are the tank mates?

sounds like when i had 4 missing sakura bodies a couple of weeks ago... think yours may have been eaten by the rest of your shrimps? Think it's possible as i had a crs dying on me yesterday and before i fished it out, a sakura and 2 shrimplets were mauling the dead body.
But 6 shrimps being eaten by 4 in 2 days... wow, your surviving ones must have been extremely hungry!

Originally Posted by _kai_

hi bros i need some help. i bought 10 crs and after 2 nights i woke up to find there are only 3 or 4 left. my tank is not heavily planted and i checked for casualties but there were no dead bodies nor were they hiding in my plants. i covered my filter with spare filter wool but they still disapear!pls help

You will be surprised when after you take out all the plants, driftwoods and stones, they are all there. I have shrimps managed to crawl it way under the rocks and the wired marima boss and many shrimplets hinding under the driftwood too as though they were missing.

I suggest you throw in a little food and see if 'all' of them reappear again. I can never find mine too, but whenever feeding time, occasionally I'll still have a full count.

I had mine disappear once in a while as well...I highly suspect that lizard might be the culprit as i saw footprints on my tank and caught a lizard prowling near the water surface several times already.Thats my wild guess though as i had not caught it 'red handed' yet.

Originally Posted by _kai_

hi bros i need some help. i bought 10 crs and after 2 nights i woke up to find there are only 3 or 4 left. my tank is not heavily planted and i checked for casualties but there were no dead bodies nor were they hiding in my plants. i covered my filter with spare filter wool but they still disapear!pls help

well i have the same problem too. my population has been decreasing and i can't find any dead bodies .

Throw in some food.... if they do not appear, think they are dead.... either eaten by those surviving shimps or in your filter elements in bits.

Check what is your water perimeter, the death rate is too high. No good for the surviving ones as well.

Two important things... ph and temperature as well as if tank was cycled properly before introducing shrimps.