Hi, new to the forums and new to fish keeping too...been reading a lot and think I've avoided most of the newbie mistakes...
I have had a healthy tank set up for a couple of months with a stable population...lost a couple of fish early probably due to some bad purchases (found a better store)...I HAD a healthy colony of 9 shrimp (mostly cherry with a couple of red crystal)...
Last week I added 3 assassin snails to hunt down my pond snail "guests" and now, a week later I can't find my shrimp- there's only one in sight, as for the rest, they're completely missing, no shrimps, no corpses. The tank is heavily planted, but I could normally find most of them grazing on the leaves or rocks.
Is it possible my snails ate them? otherwise I'm at a complete loss.
Thanks everyone for any suggestions!
Here's my tank setup and info:
26 gallon planted aquarium;
:ammonia/nitrite/nitrate levels are zeroed and stable;
H is a bit high (7.8-8.0);
:injecting CO2 with home made yeast reactor;
:full spectrum Aquatic Life light (4 bulbs + Blue LED)
- 10 hours x 2 roseatte bulbs
- 6.5 hours x2 6000K bulbs (overlapped with roseatte for daylight cycle)
:Fish Population
- 4 swordtails (avg 2 inches)
- 4 bumblebee gobies (avg 1.5 inches)
- 3 five stripe barbs (avg 1.5 inches)
- 12 celestial pearl danios (less than an inch)
- 1 lizard loach (3 inches)
- 1 wood shrimp (filter feeder 3 inches)
- 9 cherry/crystal shrimp (currently the problem)
- 3 assassin snails (potentially the source of the problem)
I have had a healthy tank set up for a couple of months with a stable population...lost a couple of fish early probably due to some bad purchases (found a better store)...I HAD a healthy colony of 9 shrimp (mostly cherry with a couple of red crystal)...
Last week I added 3 assassin snails to hunt down my pond snail "guests" and now, a week later I can't find my shrimp- there's only one in sight, as for the rest, they're completely missing, no shrimps, no corpses. The tank is heavily planted, but I could normally find most of them grazing on the leaves or rocks.
Is it possible my snails ate them? otherwise I'm at a complete loss.
Thanks everyone for any suggestions!
Here's my tank setup and info:
26 gallon planted aquarium;
:ammonia/nitrite/nitrate levels are zeroed and stable;
H is a bit high (7.8-8.0); :injecting CO2 with home made yeast reactor;
:full spectrum Aquatic Life light (4 bulbs + Blue LED)
- 10 hours x 2 roseatte bulbs
- 6.5 hours x2 6000K bulbs (overlapped with roseatte for daylight cycle)
:Fish Population
- 4 swordtails (avg 2 inches)
- 4 bumblebee gobies (avg 1.5 inches)
- 3 five stripe barbs (avg 1.5 inches)
- 12 celestial pearl danios (less than an inch)
- 1 lizard loach (3 inches)
- 1 wood shrimp (filter feeder 3 inches)
- 9 cherry/crystal shrimp (currently the problem)
- 3 assassin snails (potentially the source of the problem)
