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This has been bugging me for a long while now because I just cannot figure out WHY.
Before our city changed water sources several years ago, I had no trouble keeping snails and ghost shrimp alive. Since then almost all freshwater inverts end up dead in a few weeks.
Ghost shrimp
Bamboo shrimp
Cherry shrimp
Nerites
Pond snails
Ramshorns (common and giant)
Mystery snails
MTS!! Seriously.
The only thing I can keep in freshwater is spiny-tailed trumpets, which I am thankful for as they manage my sandbed for me. (When my MTS and rams died off I ended up with anaerobic pockets and it was not fun.)
However, I had a thriving fiddler crab tank for four years and two nerites that thrived in that tank for almost that whole time. (An accident involving a cat killed them all off.)
I would think if it was something in the water then it would have affected the brackish tank as well, which was not the case. Also, I am on the same water source as my LFS (friends of mine!) and they have no troubles. The only difference is the pipes as I am in the next city over.
This all leads me to think it has to be something missing from the water that the salt mix added back in?
Anyone have any ideas? I have basically given up on inverts at this point. I had been hoping maybe something in fertilizers would add in what was missing now thar I have a planted tank, but I tried two ghost shrimp a few weeks ago and they are missing now as well.
I miss shrimp!!
Before our city changed water sources several years ago, I had no trouble keeping snails and ghost shrimp alive. Since then almost all freshwater inverts end up dead in a few weeks.
Ghost shrimp
Bamboo shrimp
Cherry shrimp
Nerites
Pond snails
Ramshorns (common and giant)
Mystery snails
MTS!! Seriously.
The only thing I can keep in freshwater is spiny-tailed trumpets, which I am thankful for as they manage my sandbed for me. (When my MTS and rams died off I ended up with anaerobic pockets and it was not fun.)
However, I had a thriving fiddler crab tank for four years and two nerites that thrived in that tank for almost that whole time. (An accident involving a cat killed them all off.)
I would think if it was something in the water then it would have affected the brackish tank as well, which was not the case. Also, I am on the same water source as my LFS (friends of mine!) and they have no troubles. The only difference is the pipes as I am in the next city over.
This all leads me to think it has to be something missing from the water that the salt mix added back in?
Anyone have any ideas? I have basically given up on inverts at this point. I had been hoping maybe something in fertilizers would add in what was missing now thar I have a planted tank, but I tried two ghost shrimp a few weeks ago and they are missing now as well.
I miss shrimp!!