Cant keep a shrimp alive , What am I doing wrong ?

Bent said:
Dude you did it again.

Don't. Open. The. Bag. Putting that line in the bag screwed you.

Float the bag, match the salinity, pick him up with your hand and put him in.
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How do I match the salinity if I dont drip him ?
 
I have never acclimated any shrimp ,crabs, snails.
I put all the bags in the dt, one at a time pour the bags into a bucket through a large net, catching the assorted critter in the net.
Dump said critter(s) in the tank..
Never had any troubles with them surviving...
 
il give it another shot over the weekend and try to float it for 15 min and dump him... Seems like dripping is not the way to go. I dont see how opening the bag after a 15 minute car ride is that bad but I will see how just floating 15 min goes

Thanks for all the reply guys
 
DrPheel said:
How do I match the salinity if I dont drip him ?
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You can buy at a LFS that keeps salinity at your reef tank level; 1.024-1.026 or

Check the LFS water & if it is lower than yours by a wider margin, set up a simple QT tank or bucket at the LFS salinity level. Now you can raise it slowly over the course of a few days.

IMO LFSs should not keep their sensitive inverts at the low salinities that fish are commonly kept at ~-1.016'or so but many do.
 
Before buying another. Find out the salinity of the water at your LFS. And tell us what the difference is between their water and yours.
 
I just floated the bags for 15 mind and dump my fishes or inverts in the tank. I never had any losses.

Did the same for corals. Usually they were shipped in bags of water or dry shipped in moist newspaper. Just floated the bags for 15 mins and dumped them in.

I never drip acclimate at all lol.
 
They say it's 1.024, but I would check it myself. I've gotten both high and low salinities from the LFS, even when they say the tank is 1.025.

I personally acclimate my shrimp over about an hour. I don't drip acclimate anything that's been shipped, but a 10 min drive home and another hour in the bag hasn't killed one yet. That being said, I also use the turkey baster method of removing some bag water and adding tank water, so if ammonia is building up, that should dilute it. I keep the bag in the tank so temp is matched as well.

I'm not sure why your shrimp keep dying. That is frustrating! Since you've drip acclimated several, it makes sense to change that variable. I also wonder about fish attacking them, but you haven't seen that? Also know that coral banded shrimps can get aggressive and could kill the other shrimp (although that doesn't sound like what happened). Anyway, good luck in solving this!
 
mcgyvr said:
Yes.. just float the bag for 10-15 minutes and then grab that sucker out and put it right into the tank..
I've always done that.. never lost anything
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Same here, I just temp acclimate and drop them in. Same goes for snails and hermits etc. I've also not lost anything doing it this way
 
I wouldn't worry about drip acclimation. Leave the bag closed, float it to get it to the right temp, scoop him out right after opening, and add him right into your tank.
 
This is a long shot but is there any chance you have stray electrical voltage in the tank from a bad heater or power head cord?
 
When you really think about it, who doesn't? The majority of us can't figure it out... (grounded?) Things do look good though.. ;) GL.
 
Desert Sea said:
This is a long shot but is there any chance you have stray electrical voltage in the tank from a bad heater or power head cord?
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This.

This was my first thought in regards to your issue. Shrimp are highly sensitive to stray voltage, and it will kill them quick. Firefish are also extra sensitive to this. You might check over your equipment and make sure everything is working properly. Heaters are the worst.

GL! :bigeyes:
 
Thanks for all the reply's guys .... Look like the float n' dump is the next try. Il wait for the weekend and think about it some more , not sure if I want to risk it again.

I will update the thread if I end up trying again for anyone with this issue in the future

Thanks for the educated reply's and comments RC :beachbum:
 
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