Looks like she's struggling to molt. Water hardness is usually the first thing to look at. Here's a good article that deep dives into GH (general hardness)
I recently had a shrimp that was like this, couldn't even move except the legs for a little, thought she was a goner. Overnight managed to pull through.
Update: she died :(
I tested parameters and they’re still good. Also another berried shrimp gave birth this morning I think because there’s a bunch of little shrimp running around. I’m so confused, it must be something specific to this poor mama
Holy crap. 2/3 of the foods i have contain copper sulfate 😳. Have been feeding my fish this, and the remains are eaten by shrimp. Haven’t had a problem “yet”. Should I find avoid feeding them those?
I thought shrimp needed copper for blood circulation? I swear they're shrimp food has copper in it and says that. I need to find it for a picture, maybe I'm remembering wrong.
Yeah, i searched online and on another thread someone said that copper through food isn’t harmful. It’s the copper ions inside the water column that are harmful. It’s even mentioned on the pellets you posted.
Yes, they do require copper, and are fairly efficient at mitigating copper toxicity, and can even gain higher resistances to it, because it is necessary for them. I dosed all mine with a 55 gallon dose of ich meds without realizing that is super bad for them. What made me realize when it happened was because my shrimps started flying around the tank very rapidly. Did a 50% water change, added some heavy metal detoxifier, my shrimps heads turned scorched black, but they survived. Their breeding was crippled for a couple months after that too, but still they prevail.
I actually don't use this as my shrimp are herbivores and this is for omnivores. I was thinking of getting the herb mix though because nothing else I put in the tank has the copper.
Shrimp generally are not herbivores. They are detritivores and opportunistic omnivores. They 100% will eat dead fish, other dead shrimp, and carnivore pellets if they can get their hands on them. They don’t hunt, but they absolutely do need some protein in their diet for the best growth. Also, they do need small amounts of copper just like any other trace minerals, but it different from copper in the water column (which to my understanding is basically an insecticide)
Shrimp cuisine is perfectly fine, I like to feed my tanks a mix of it, algae wafers, sinking pellets and whatever else for variety
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