katienewbettakeeper
Fish Fanatic
So, I had an empty cycled five gallon sitting around and thought I should get some shrimp for it. Itās been set up with a nerite snail for over six weeks so I figured it would be cool to try out shrimp for the first time. Iāve never had shrimp before, only bettas and snails, but always been interested in them. I went to PetSmart and got five neocardina shrimp, although I think they may have given me a couple baby amanos. All the shrimp are very small, the employee at PetSmart said they get new shipments in as babies. Anyway, Iām worried I didnāt acclimate them correctly as they are now erratically swimming around the tank and Iām afraid they will die no idea how to help them now. For acclimation I kept them in the bag given to me and used a large bottle cap to pour in a bit of tank water every couple minutes for about two hours, until the water was risen to about double of what it was before. Then I floated the bag for 15 minutes to temp acclimate them. That probably wasnāt enough and I regret not doing drip acclimation.
When I first put them in they seemed fine, I dropped in some algae wafers and they went wild over them happily munching for a few hours, pretty calm. Now theyāre sort of constantly swimming around, bumping into things and even climbing out of the water a bit! I donāt know how to help them and wish Iād done it rightā¦ is there anything I can do now to help them?
My waters PH is around 7.2, the tap water is run through a water softener but I also added a gallon of spring water to the tank for minerals, hoping that would be enough, but now I think the water isnāt right for them. I donāt know the gh or kh or tds (stupid I know yeesh)
So, is there anything I can do to save them? I feel really terrible and donāt want to just watch them slowly dieā¦ I was really excited for them
When I first put them in they seemed fine, I dropped in some algae wafers and they went wild over them happily munching for a few hours, pretty calm. Now theyāre sort of constantly swimming around, bumping into things and even climbing out of the water a bit! I donāt know how to help them and wish Iād done it rightā¦ is there anything I can do now to help them?
My waters PH is around 7.2, the tap water is run through a water softener but I also added a gallon of spring water to the tank for minerals, hoping that would be enough, but now I think the water isnāt right for them. I donāt know the gh or kh or tds (stupid I know yeesh)
So, is there anything I can do to save them? I feel really terrible and donāt want to just watch them slowly dieā¦ I was really excited for them