Help! Bamboo Shrimp Not Doing Well

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IdaRosson

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I bought a bamboo shrimp from my LPS last week. It was obviously starving as it was collecting food off the bottom at the store but it seemed to move around fine. My shrimp seemed to be doing okay other than I never actually have seen it eating and it hasn't been fanning for food. Yesterday before I left it was lying on the bottom of the tank, when I got home today it was on its side not moving at all. I thought it was dead but when I went to take it out it clung to the net and I had a hell of a time trying to get it off. It's color is a bright red/brown and from what I know that's healthy and when they're dying they turn really pale. I really don't know what the issue is with her. I've owned two bamboo shrimp before and they lived for over two years. It looks like its fans may be damaged but I can't really be sure. I have corys (which I know are harmless), three dwarf gourami and three yoyo loach. From what I've read yoyo loaches eat shrimp so I'm a little worried this might be the reason my shrimp isn't doing very well even with its size. Any feedback would be helpful, I love bamboo shrimp and paid quite a bit of money for it. 
 
Usually when a shrimp goes red (unless its colour morph is usually red like cherry shrimp or crystal red shrimp) then the shrimp is already in trouble and likely to die.
The problems with the shrimp could be residual from the shop, but just in case could yu please answer a few questions for us.
1. Have you added anything new to the tank besides the shrimp? Things like new plants which may have been chemically treated to remove snails.
2. Have you carried out a water test? Are the water parameters what you normally see or has there been a spike?
3. When was the last water change on the tank carried out?
4. Have you tried putting the shrimp in some other water that has still had chlorine and chloramine removers added but not in the tan?.
5. Have you used any medications in the tank? Things to treat for internal worms or external parasites like ich of lice?
 
Bamboo shrimp usually are red, or at least the two I had for years were always a red color? I haven't added anything new to the tank except for the shrimp, haven't used any medications whatsoever, last water change was the day I got the shrimp, the shrimp has only been in the water from the lps and then directly into the tank, I haven't done a water test yet but I'm going to try a go get one today.
 
I keep an Australian native shrimp which is related to your shrimp, if my Riffle shrimp go red I know they are not happy and in trouble, they will often go blue when stressed, otherwise my Riffle shrimp are generally a dark brown or black with a tan stripe down their back.
Some of my Riffle shrimp (Australatya striolata)
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In the above picture the small red shrimp at the top of the heater is a rather upset Chameleon shrimp.

A stressed Riffle shrimp, was upset because I moved its java fern tree while doing some tank maintenance
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