Hello all, I recently added 10 RCS to my 20 gallon planted tank. I have 8 harlequin rasboras and 4 oto cats in the tank with them. The day after I brought them home and put them in the tank I found one pregnant female on its back dead. When I took it out it bent very easily in it's midsection and almost broke in half. Over the following days all was fine in the tank and I assumed it didn't survive the three hour car ride back. Unfortunately today I came back from a two day trip and yet another was dead in the same position except it was a male and did break in half! Some of my shrimp were hiding while others were out and about doing their usual foraging. All of them have gotten a lot redder as I have had them as well. I know rasboras can pick at adult RCS but I've only seen them curiously nip at one swimming in midwater, although generally they ignore them. Also, I generally skip feeding my rasboras once a week anyway so I don't think they were very hungry. As far as my parameters go my PH is 7.2, ammonia is 0, nitrites are 0, and nitrates are 10ppm, and the Temp is 78F. I haven't used any ferts since I got them and used excel flourish three or four times at half dosage, no CO2 either. I also know they aren't starving because my tank has algae and I give them the an algae wafer every few days. Any suggestions on what to do to prevent any more from dying or what could be killing them? Thanks in advance!
Please help, red cherry shrimp mysteriously dying
- Thread starter Byron3992
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I lost my entire breeding population of rcs to planaria. Have you checked to see if you have any? Your fish are nipping them, they could have out right attacked them. Another option is simply they died. It happens. I lost 3 recently. Nothing out of the ordinary in my tank. Just died.