Paralysed Shrimp

[donaldastwood]

Hi, I have a pair of bamboo shrimp in my planted dwarf cichlid tank. Recently I have been having filament algae problems. As a result I have been focused on ridding my tank of the stuff. As a result I tried a number of things, and most recently Hydrogen Peroxide dosing.

But after my fist dosing i noticed one of my shrimp lieing on its side and it appeared dead But when I used my net to take it on its trip to the toilet for the big flush, as soon as the net touched it it started twitching and trying to get a way...but it could only move literally like 1 inch at a time. As a result i left it in the net suspended in the water so that the other fish wouldnt take the dieing shrimp as a snack. I figured that this was a result of the peroxide (Which i read would be benificial after the first few hours) and abruptly did a series of large water changes over the next few days. But it has been a week, and 3 water changes and the shrimp is still alive, but still unable to move and unable to feed The second shrimp is still alive and feeding sparsely. Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on here?? or should i take this as a hit and sacrifice the shrimp

 

[NilePufferFanatic]

There is a chance that the H2O2 burnt the gills of one shrimp more than the other. It is a good sign that it isn't dead. If the gills atre burnt the can recover, but in the mean time the gills will not absorb as much oxygen (suffocating). I have chloromine burnt fish gills before, and some fish healed over a month period (I added tons of bubblers and diffusers to get oxygen into the water).