African Armoured Shrimp

[shamus]

hi I have set up a 95 litre tank for about three months went through all the new tank syndrome ect. got my water tested at the shop they said it was now fine to add more fish so i bought 2 african shrimp one died within an hour of being in the tank i phoned the shop they retested my water and put it down to stress and gave me another one but 24 hours later one of them is curled up and hardly moving

any advice is welcome

Shaun

 

[minxfishy]

Unfortunately with a shop saying the water is ok, doesnt necessarily mean it is.

You need to find out the water stats, get the shop to write these down for you if you dont have your own liquid based test kit.

You need to know the levels of :Ammonia, NitrIte, NitrAte and PH.

Shrimp can be effected by any trace of ammonia or nitrite and also a sudden change in PH. They are also copper intolerant. Sometimes there can be traces on copper on plants bought from the shop or traces in the tap water from copper pipes. How did you acclimatise them?

Also what other fish are in the tank?

I know its frustrating, having recently lost lots of shrimp myself, probably from traces of copper.