Emergency amano shrimps not moving

[Andres391]

Amano shrimps won't move from one spot every since I added new plants I did miss with the substrate. I did a 30percent water change on Tuesday.
0everything no ammonia anything
Ph stable. Neutral its been days that they stay in one spot not eating never seen this before in the whole year I had them

 

[Fishstery]

Amano shrimps won't move from one spot every since I added new plants I did miss with the substrate. I did a 30percent water change on Tuesday.
0everything no ammonia anything
Ph stable. Neutral its been days that they stay in one spot not eating never seen this before in the whole year I had them

They might be getting close to molting. Usually if there's something off about the water they will actually do the opposite and start swimming sporadically around the tank.

When you said you messed with the substrate, what do you mean by that? And what kind of substrate are you using?

 

[Andres391]

Added plants, organic top soil with no added nutrients about one inch and a inch and a half of pool sand

 

[Fishstery]

Added plants, organic top soil with no added nutrients about one inch and a inch and a half of pool sand

If you disturbed the substrate a great deal you may have caused a spike in ammonia and didn't realize it until the amanos started acting strange. What are you using to test the parameters? And how long ago did you do all of this?

 

[Andres391]

Tuesday and used api tested again today 0 0 0

 

[Fishstery]

Tuesday and used api tested again today 0 0 0

Hmm..I don't have any experience with dirted tanks so I can't say if there was something that contaminated the water when you disturbed the cap. I'd say keep a close eye on them for any other odd behavior, like I said they may be ready to molt. Mine will usually find a place to hang out before molting and sit there motionless until it's time. Water changes can also trigger molting so it's possible that's the case since you noticed this behavior after the last water change you did.

 

[StarGirl]

Are you sure its not a molt? They look just like a shrimp. At least my amanos do.

 

[Andres391]

Hmm..I don't have any experience with dirted tanks so I can't say if there was something that contaminated the water when you disturbed the cap. I'd say keep a close eye on them for any other odd behavior, like I said they may be ready to molt. Mine will usually find a place to hang out before molting and sit there motionless until it's time. Water changes can also trigger molting so it's possible that's the case since you noticed this behavior after the last water change you did.

Yea but in the same place all of them at the same time for 3 days without eating kind of wierd never seen this before but it is my 1st sand aquarium I use to move plants around with black lava rock gravel from eco complete never had a issue but I guess with sand the fertilizer has no where else to go but the top layer instead of falling through the gravel maybe they have copper poisoning I use osmocote I recently added a rosetta sword plant and with that plant you have to dig in through the substrate big plant too
I moved them to my other aquarium with eco complete and see if that will bring them back to normal

Are you sure its not a molt? They look just like a shrimp. At least my amanos do.

No they are live all 7 of them together in the same spot not eating kind of like if there scratching them selfs but did nit see any parasites or fungus maybe copper got them

 

[Fishstery]

Yea but in the same place all of them at the same time for 3 days without eating kind of wierd never seen this before but it is my 1st sand aquarium I use to move plants around with black lava rock gravel from eco complete never had a issue but I guess with sand the fertilizer has no where else to go but the top layer instead of falling through the gravel maybe they have copper poisoning I use osmocote I recently added a rosetta sword plant and with that plant you have to dig in through the substrate big plant too
I moved them to my other aquarium with eco complete and see if that will bring them back to normal

No they are live all 7 of them together in the same spot not eating kind of like if there scratching them selfs but did nit see any parasites or fungus maybe copper got them

Oh you said it was organic top soil with no added nutrients. Is it osmocote or osmocote plus? Regular osmocote doesn't contain copper to my knowledge but osmocote plus does. In the future I would remove any inverts if you're going to disturb your sand cap like that