Black spots on blood shrimp. Help? problem?

[TOURKID]

Hi all

I noticed today that my blood shrimp has developed black spots on his tail regoin, and between his eyes on the top of his head.

his tail also looks paler than the top half of his body.

Is this normal? should I be worried?
are there any explanations as to why these are developing??

hope you can halp. hes eating fine, and doing his normal stuff

 

[TOURKID]

bump

 

[bertoni]

Bumping your post takes you off the unanswered list.

The black spots are often symptoms of a disease. It's fatal, and there's no treatment. The shrimp might last a fair amount of time, anyway, if that's that what it has.

 

[TOURKID]

I have a pic i took this morning. Im not sure how long theyve been there. Ive only had the shrimp maybe 2 weeks.

I dident know there was an unanswered list. ill keep that in mind. thank you

 

[bertoni]

That looks like the shrimp disease I mentioned. Not much you can do, as far as I know.

 

[TOURKID]

bummer. got a name for this disease by any chance?

 

[bertoni]

Sigh, I don't remember, but if you do a search, you might find some guesses or a name.

 

[TOURKID]

looking now. not anything popping up easily so im at webweb just reading. Im more bummed than i even thought id be. I cant seem to get by a full week without somthing going wrong, my fault or not

 

[bertoni]

Sometimes reefs are like that.