Ghost shrimp help. Organ turned red overnight?

Patrickf1986
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Can anybody identify the red spot inside this ghost shrimp? Was fine and pregnant a few days ago. Coloration good. Light brown eggs. Purchased a 10 gallon to hatch in. Threw a couple blue neons in there with an Anubias nana, s repens and another plant to get a cycle started. However this morning I noticed she no longer is holding any eggs and it appears to me the digestive system or intestines maybe even the brain has turned red overnight. I don’t feed my shrimp they graze the substrate which is caribsea plant substrate mixed with black sand. The fish are fed either freeze dried blood worms or tropical fish granules. I tend to only feed what they can eat in about fifteen seconds every other day as to keep waste down. So I’m thinking it’s not something she has invested and it baffles me that this developed overnight. Pics attached are of the shrimp obviously. The 29 long they are housed in and the 10 gallon she has been moved to hatch in. I noticed the red spot prior to transition so the problem is not the 10g.
 

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Demeter
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What did you feed recently? That looks like the stomach to me and it will turn whatever color the food is that they’re eating.
 
Patrickf1986
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I don’t feed the ghost shrimp. They graze whatever waste hits the substrate. The fish I only feed freeze dried bloodworms or tropical fish food granules. Neither of which are red nor have any of the other shrimp altered their appearance in color.
 
Sprinkle
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I don’t feed the ghost shrimp. They graze whatever waste hits the substrate. The fish I only feed freeze dried bloodworms or tropical fish food granules. Neither of which are red nor have any of the other shrimp altered their appearance in color.
Blodworms gave the colour of it's stomach. Try feeding the ghost shrimp other foods. Feed them, don't let the graze on the soil too much.
 
Patrickf1986
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I guess I’m confused then on why this one particular pregnant ghost shrimp turned red overnight. I’ve been feeding freeze dried blood worms and tropical fish pellets for two weeks now in this tank. The other five shrimp are healthy, clear/slightly milky on some and have no red coloration. I attached images of the food the tank is fed.
 

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Sprinkle
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I guess I’m confused then on why this one particular pregnant ghost shrimp turned red overnight. I’ve been feeding freeze dried blood worms and tropical fish pellets for two weeks now in this tank. The other five shrimp are healthy, clear/slightly milky on some and have no red coloration. I attached images of the food the tank is fed.
Other shrimp weren't particularly interested in eating the bloodworms so I suppose they wouldn't turn red. They just weren't interested in the bloodworms.
 
Cinabar
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That’s the stomach, I’m pretty sure she ate her eggs
 
Patrickf1986
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  • #8
That’s the stomach, I’m pretty sure she ate her eggs

Now that makes a bit more sense. I blanched a cucumber and zucchinI this morning and stuck them in my three tanks and froze the rest. Maybe next go around with preggo shrimp they won’t eat the eggs. Thanks for the help everybody. I swear being aquarium parent is harder than being a parent to my two toddlers sons.
 
Cinabar
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Now that makes a bit more sense. I blanched a cucumber and zucchinI this morning and stuck them in my three tanks and froze the rest. Maybe next go around with preggo shrimp they won’t eat the eggs. Thanks for the help everybody. I swear being aquarium parent is harder than being a parent to my two toddlers sons.

In my experience, shrimp eat their own eggs when they're infertile or the eggs have died. Well, I keep crayfish but hey close enough right? If you really want babies make sure there's a male around to fertilize them orbs )
 

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