Lost 3 shrimp in the past month

So in the past month we’ve lost a red Cherry shrimp, and orange shrimp, and a candy cane shrimp.
We found the red shrimp and orange when we got back from vacation (the red literally looked like a cotton ball), the orange was split in half, and then the candy cane was just laying on the bottom.

I am noticing on our green shrimp that is developing a line down it’s back similar to the red one that died but I know the green is not old as it was very small when we got it 3 weeks ago.

My local store gave me some drops (pictured) to try and help in case it was a molting issue.

I am also including the best pictures I currently have of my jade green shrimp with the stripe..

(we also just found some babies from our blue shrimp which we didn’t even know was barried as it has been hiding in our Java moss all the time lately).

 

The long line on the back is a fairly normal colouration?
A ring around the middle of the shrimp is a sign of potential having trouble moulting. Ring of death.

I would not worry about a line down the back and I think sometimes to much is made of the ring as well.

The fact of the matter is shrimp don’t have long lives at tropical temperatures. In warm water they eat more breed more and move around more. On the subject of age there is the word used to describe the selling of large adult cherry shrimp. The practice is spoken of as “grandma shrimp”. Selling large old ex breeding stock.

In reality netting out shrimp to sell is a time consuming job . I don’t think any breeder has the time to sort old shrimp out to sell? But it’s definitely a practice with apistogramma ( fish )in my country. An apistogramma starts breeding a not much more than one inch but our chain stores have 3 plus inch fish from time to time.

Anyway it’s possible you were sold old shrimp? Those that are born/ hatch in your water should have a chance of a longer life ?

On the subject of water changes and CHERRY SHRIMP ( neo caridina) .It’s much better to do one or more water change each week than it is to wait a month between water changes. The thinking is to keep the water stable by it always being like tap water.
This water change philosophy is not appropriate for caridina shrimp.

It’s also possible a fish damaged the shrimp. Like a cat playing with a mouse and not knowing what to do with it once it catches it.

In short.
As hard hearted as it may seem. Don’t worry about it. The new young shrimp you have in the tank are the ones to keep an eye on . If you start seeing dead young shrimp you actually have a problem.

Recommendation .
Consider not using a heater in the new 5 gallon tank you are starting up.

Cherry shrimp can live in 42 degrees centigrade / 100 f or under ice but last longer in cool water than in tropical water temperatures.

 

Yes shrimp do die! Nothing out of the normal. Mass die off are not normal! Are all these shrimp you mentioned in the same tank?

 

The long line on the back is a fairly normal colouration?
A ring around the middle of the shrimp is a sign of potential having trouble moulting. Ring of death.

I would not worry about a line down the back and I think sometimes to much is made of the ring as well.

The fact of the matter is shrimp don’t have long lives at tropical temperatures. In warm water they eat more breed more and move around more. On the subject of age there is the word used to describe the selling of large adult cherry shrimp. The practice is spoken of as “grandma shrimp”. Selling large old ex breeding stock.

In reality netting out shrimp to sell is a time consuming job . I don’t think any breeder has the time to sort old shrimp out to sell? But it’s definitely a practice with apistogramma ( fish )in my country. An apistogramma starts breeding a not much more than one inch but our chain stores have 3 plus inch fish from time to time.

Anyway it’s possible you were sold old shrimp? Those that are born/ hatch in your water should have a chance of a longer life ?

On the subject of water changes and CHERRY SHRIMP ( neo caridina) .It’s much better to do one or more water change each week than it is to wait a month between water changes. The thinking is to keep the water stable by it always being like tap water.
This water change philosophy is not appropriate for caridina shrimp.

It’s also possible a fish damaged the shrimp. Like a cat playing with a mouse and not knowing what to do with it once it catches it.

In short.
As hard hearted as it may seem. Don’t worry about it. The new young shrimp you have in the tank are the ones to keep an eye on . If you start seeing dead young shrimp you actually have a problem.

Recommendation .
Consider not using a heater in the new 5 gallon tank you are starting up.

Cherry shrimp can live in 42 degrees centigrade / 100 f or under ice but last longer in cool water than in tropical water temperatures.

Ok good to know.. we got a small heater that came with the 5 gallon tank.. For some reason I thought that shrimp don’t do good with colder water.

Yes shrimp do die! Nothing out of the normal. Mass die off are not normal! Are all these shrimp you mentioned in the same tank?

Yes all of them in our 20 gallon long tank.
We bought a 5 gallon tank that we plan to start this weekend that will eventually be our shrimp tank..

Here are our current stock of shrimp (except the green which I can’t get great pictures of as it blends in too much with the moss).

our “oldest” shrimp, the larger Cherry red, I’m wondering if she’s pregnant.. her belly looks a bit big..

 

Ok the last pic looks like she may be berried. On the underside of her tail you should see eggs.
Ok what happens when you add all these different color shrimp is the next gen May all revert to wild shrimp of the brown/grey color. To keep them the same color it’s best not to mix colors.

 

The three babies I see currently are very very blue.. I honestly have no idea which of mine are female and male except for our big red one..

I’m going to have mostly blue in the new shrimp tank.. we are planning on setting it up tonight.. I included the picture of our soon to be set up. We stuck With dark substrate and plan on moving some of the current moss into the new tank along with one of the snails.

 

Still cycling the tank