Rcs Not Moving

4077girl
  • #1
I just bought 6 neo shrimp (3 red cherry, 3 orange ones). By the time I got home (20 minute drive) the orange ones were still swimming around like crazy but the red ones weren’t really moving around at all. I floated their bags in the tank for around 50-60 minutes then put them in separate small buckets and have been adding a few drips of water from my tank every 3 minutes for the last half hour. The orange ones raw still swimming all over the place, but the red ones just sit in one spot. Should I still continue to acclimate them and add them to the tank, or is there a risk to the orange ones (that seem fine?). I’ve never had shrimp before so I don’t really know what’s normal. I’m sure they’re super stressed. The guy at the store seemed to j spect then all very carefully and he put one back because he said it didn’t look great. It’s a store that only sells shrimp, so I’m sure he has some idea what he is doing?

Tank parameters

Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: ~10
pH: 7.4

I don’t know the hardness, but the guy at the store said if it was tap water and I’m getting neos, and don’t have any of certain types of rocks in my tank they should be within normal parameters.

I have 2 moss balls, Christmas miss, and anubias,
 
Omegaman69
  • #2
I would drip acclimate them then add them to the tank they might just be stressed out from being handled but cherry shrimp are hardy and should be fine

I would actually worry about the ones swimming around everywhere as that is not generally normal for shrimp unless looking for a mate
 
4077girl
  • Thread Starter
  • #3
I would actually worry about the ones swimming around everywhere as that is not generally normal for shrimp unless looking for a mate
Ah yeah! That was going to be my next question. I added them all into my tank and they all appear to be eating (moving their little hands like crazy towards their mouth?) sitting on different plants. So do they mainly just stay in one place and eat? I always see them zooming around at the store, but that probably because there are like 700 of them in the tank and like 8 happened to get startled or are looking for somewhere else to chill so I just notice the ones that are moving around?
 
Omegaman69
  • #4
Mine will swim around on occasion mostly they just walk around on the bottom and might swim up to a plant but they are always munching
 
4077girl
  • Thread Starter
  • #5
Now 4/ 6 are just chilling and eating, and 2 (one more than the other) are swimming around like crazy, up and down and all around?! It kind of looks like they have something white or stringy in their front legs? There is some kind of fuzzy looking stuff floating around the tank from moving everything around that I think came from one of my plants? Could his legs be tangled??
 
Omegaman69
  • #6
There is a disease that affects rcs it looks like white fuzz growing on their body's keep an eye on them if it starts to look worse or not go away its called Vorticella. Pictures would help, and vorticella is cureable with a aquarium salt bath I'd have to look it up it that's what it turns out to be

If it is just pieces of plant matter then they will untangle themselves eventually and should be nothing to worry about, in fact they might even me munching on it as they carry it around
 
kanzekatores
  • #7
Red Cherry Shrimp stay in one place while eating.
Also they should generally have low activity and not be buzzing around. They enjoy having lots of plants as well.
I'm pretty sure the fuzzy stuff should just be plant matter.
 

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