So what is happening here? This can't be normal? I honestly don't know how to even describe it. It looks like a bacterial bloom but it looks like it's coming from this shrimp specifically?
Take a toothbrush (one you don’t care for) and try scrubbing that area a bit. You’ll know immediately if the shrimp was just kicking up the dust & clay or not.
Even if the tank has been going for a while, it’s possible nothing disturbed that spot. You’d be surprised at how much loose clay & silt can hide on dragonstone.
I tried really hard to wash mine, sat out on my driveway with a hose for like an hour. Sometimes it felt like the whole thing was just made of the loose powder. Eventually I just said it was enough lol
Did you wash the stone? I had to because they’re normally extremely dirty.
There are videos on YT how to do that the best. And yes believe me, they have good advices.
You have no idea what amount of clay and dirt can come out of a single dragon stone 🙈
Dragon stone is a sedimentary rock made from hardened clay. When I bought some of recently, there was quite a bit of soft clay in the 'pores' that didn't easily wash out. Your shrimp is cleaning a spot you missed, put some extra food in for him won't ya
They broke up a clay spot in the dragon rock. It was likely basically stone due to being dry but after time in the tank it rehydrated and was waiting to be disturbed 💕
Shremp discovered weed, and found a way to smoke underwater. The plan is to use the cloud as cover to escape, but thankfully with it being weed, those skrimps wont be going anywhere in a short time.
It's smoking underwater...My shrimp do this often. I find my cigarettes missing when I come home from work and butts usually end up floating up to the top of the tank. I have to keep my cigarettes taped to the ceiling to prevent this from occuring.
He's just ripping a fat cloud (normal behavior) you may see him drinking monster energy drinks do not worry they will grow out of that phase in maybe 3 molts
Doesn't dragon stone come with pockets of clay you're supposed to carefully clean out ? Maybe the shrimp is just scratching some clay residue and it would make this white cloud?
Yep! That's exactly what it is. I ran my tongs over that part of the rocks and it broke off. She found the spot I missed. 🙄 Oh well. Good calcium I guess?
Dragonstone? If so, I cleaned each stone under running water in the tub and scrapped off all the clay! If possible I’d remove it from the aquarium and give it a scrub before adding it back! It can mess with your tank parameters if left dirty!
Yep! And yeah, I did but it clearly wasn't enough. And of course, I have a bunch of plants glued to it. Unfortunately, it's pretty embedded in. But I tested and my parameters and TDS are all still stable. At least it hasn't happened since then. She didn't do it before or since, so I guess her excavating days are over.
Looks like your shrimp is digging up the clay. Sediment inside of the dragon stone, when I put my dragon Stone in my tank, I used a toothpick toothbrush and a whole bunch of stuff to try and get as much of that stuff out as possible. I don't think it changes your water. Chemistry, but essentially digging it out makes the holes in the Stone look more defined. I hope that helped
I know Armono actually scrap things with their claws by pinching at it and use filter fans attached to the back of the claw to filter out what they scrape up and bring to mouth.
Those kinds of stones have a lot of dirt and dust that hides in the crevices, they are pretty hard to clean, i ended up taking most of mine out, but i cleaned a few of them and haven’t had an issue since
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