Keeping Ghost Shrimp Alive

[fishwatcher]

I've bought ghost SHRIMP many many times, always knowing that within a few weeks they'd all be dead. What am I doing wrong? I could understand if the tanks weren't cycled, or needed cleaning/water changes done... but with the stats perfect and the other fish nice, still they start dropping off within a few weeks. Any advice on this?
I do love them, but am getting tired having to buy them over and over and then fishing their little bodies out of the tank later.
Thanks!

edit' I just realized I had typed fish instead of shrimp! Sorry!!!

 

[i_ganjaman]

whoops,all my babbling has gone.....

 

[Flumpus]

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[fishwatcher]

I've tried these shrimp in all my tanks, 10-gal, 20-gal, even my 3-gal DP tank. All with the same ending for them. I'm not sure what the deal is, as I test my water regularly, do weekly water changes, bimonthly vacs, the lighting is standard flour. bulbs, on for about 12 hr a day. Temp is about 76, my water is fairly soft and acidic (about 6.4). I keep a chunk of calcium-type stuff (it's the thing you buy for birds to scrape their beaks on) in the tanks (for the snails). Also, the tanks are all pretty heavily planted with live plants and each has a chuck of driftwood or a man-made "cave" thing.

 

[vancouver]

They're really bred for food only.. lots of people feed them to their fish.

They're just really weak.. I have the same problem.. maybe a month tops for me.. other types of shrimp have lasted much longer.. I just think that because they are bred for food, they are weak.

 

[iroc]

LOL the one thing I haven't been able to kill is my ghost shrimp, I keep thinking they are dead and then boom I see them walking the walls of the tank