My Baby Cherry Shrimp Keeps Dieing. Why?

[bb1991]

So i have 5 cherry shrimp in a 10-ish litre tank with two christmas moss patches for them to graze on. I have had these 3 occurances since the time i first set-up this tank about a month ago. One day i would see about one or two really tiny shrimp, the size of them you can fit on a head of a needle. After that day i would never see them again. This has happened about two weeks interval. On the three seperate days that i saw the baby shrimp they seem very healthy, swimming around, vertical moonwalking on the glass and all that. I feed them one sinking pellet every other day. I used to feed them a lot more but after seeing a few planaria, i changed my feeding time, and now no planarias in sight for two weeks now. My 5 adult shrimps are all healthy, none has died, and the female even without eggs looks pretty plump. I just don't understand what's happening. Can someone list a few, most common causes of baby shrimp not being able to live past a day?

PS: I keep my tank in my bedroom, at night i turn on my air at 25C, without the aircon during the daytime it can get to 26-28C.

I was thinking of buying a mosquito net-like sheet and make sort of a pocket in the tank and put the baby shrimp in the next time i have them. Sort of like a nursery section for the babies and will drop a sinking pellet in since there's no food in the pocket. Will this work? Because i'm not sure if adult shrimps attack/eat baby shrimps or not.
Any suggestions on what to do will help greatly, Thanks

 

[Baccus]

My first culprit I would be checking rather than the adults is the filter. Thats assuming that the tank has a filter. Shrimp and especially shrimplets are incredibly good at getting into filters and living quite happily in them for that matter .

Other wise planaria can kill shrimplets and even adult shrimp is the infestation is bad.
Higher water temp doesn't usually worry cherry shrimp except that it can speed up their growth and live cycle with regards to water temp they really are tough.

If you want to try and raise some shrimplets in a suspended net in the adults tank, I would get one of the prefab breeding nets, the mesh is fine enough to not let tiny shrimplets through and the net will develop its own biofilm which both the adult shrimp and shrimplets will enjoy picking over.

 

[cokers]

They might be hiding in the Christmas Moss. They're pretty tiny and just love to hide (natural instinct and all that)
The breeding net would be a good idea as you can monitor them closely. If you don't have one, I'd suggest using a sponge filter as well. They might not look great, but they perform mechanical filtration and the shrimps can graze of the sponge.