why do my peppermint shrimp keep dying!!

[Tangnerd]

Oh... And btw I have never used ro water and have never had a problem with the health of my inverts

 

[reneehaecker]

I have cichlid pellets but will that work ?

 

[Tangnerd]

Probably shrimp will eat anything, I buy the ocean nutrition formula one pellets. But your cichlid pellets will work.

 

[reneehaecker]

Ok I don't know what is happening but my hermits died and my chromis died

 

[Tangnerd]

Do you ever hear a clicking in a tank look for any hitch hiker crabs at night sounds like you have something bad on your live rock. If you hear clicking its either a mantis or a pistol shrimp.either that or you have really high nitrates test your water maybe your tap water has copper in it check it. I hope you have good luck that's vey sad that stuff keeps dying.

 

[degibson84]

The aquatic lady at petco told me to get the priciest which was prime water conditioner .should I just buy premade saltwater from my lfs because I don't think I can a afford a to unit and I check the salinity of my tank water I just thought u ment the bag

this seems to be the issue here. She told you to buy the most expensive conditioner. I have never once bought water conditioner. most conditioners only remoce chloramines.

 

[reneehaecker]

I dont Have abrimos but I Have tone of bristleworms and im definetly buying a Test kit!

 

[reneehaecker]

Not abrimos but shrimps

 

[reneehaecker]

But after All this my Clowns are still healthy

 

[Biocubehqi]

As stated before, clowns are extremely hardy fish, some people use them to cycle a tank... They are like tanks themselfs... Snails and crabs and shrimp and coral, those things are a lot less hardy... You def, need to figure this out... If I was you I would quit going to petco...

 

[reneehaecker]

Yea but where should I buy my fish, online, because I went to another fish store and every thing I got from there ended up dying

 

[MisterP]

I'm new at this myself but to me you are missing the point. If you bought fish and shrimp from LFS then everything starts dying you have a water chemistry issue. Also I have not seen a single parameter listed for people to help you troubleshoot. If it were me I'd quit buying animals and start buying test kits and figure out your water issues.

 

[reneehaecker]

ok i will