u/Glennsmum

Yesterday morning I noticed one of my crystal red shrimp laying laterally. Big sad, I thought she had passed..but a gentle poke with forceps and she got moving (but not in the usual rapid fire shrimp speed). She shuffled forward a few centimetres and then became lateral again. Big sad, but I had to leave for work.

Arrived home 10 hours later, she'd moved towards the back of the tank. Looked deceased, go to get her out and she shuffles forward again.

Not really knowing what was going on, I put a small piece of shrimp pellet near her. I dont know what I was expecting, but I thought itd be a last ditch effort. She slowly eats it and a couple hours later, she's shuffled to the front of the tank. Later on she started climbing the rotala, and today she's pretty much behaving like nothing happened.

At first I thought she'd been bumped mid moult by her other shrimp tank mates, but the fact she was still alive 10 hours later made me doubt moulting issues. (I also didnt see a shed of her size)

Then I thought possibly old age? ive only had her for a couple months, but theres a chance I was sent an older female from the breeder.

otherwise, the tanks stable. I checked the water quality when I got home and she was still morbundish.

PH sits around 6.4, KH 80, ALK 80, GH 75, no detectable chlorine, nitrites, copper, iron or ammonia. There was low range nitrates, which the tanks had consistently for months. The tank is planted with cO2.

I'm interested if anyone else has has similar occur? whether the food was a placebo, or it genuinely made a difference? or if it would have been fine regardless

Wwyd? I ordered some cardinal tetras online and when they arrived I noticed a +1. Im pretty sure its a hastatus corydora, but if not then its a pygmy corydora. There was minimal colouration to go off. So once it settles in and colours up i'll know for sure.

But my question is ~ is this corydora distribution at work? Technically, itd be fine in the community tank, but hastatus corys werent on my list of tank mates.

currently running with

7 sterbai corydoras

6 khuli loaches

6 glass catfish

amano, caradina and neocaradina shrimp

6 rummy nose tetras

6 cardinal tetras

12 ember tetras

5 emerald rasboras

8 galaxy rasboras

the lone soldier bumble bee goby

3 ottocinclus

The tank is a 240L, planted tank with cO2.

Can it exist alongside these species? or do I need to purchase a schools worth.

I've ordered 12 ember tetras online, which will go into my large community tank, but not before a stint in quarantine.

What's everyone's preferred quarantine protocols?

1- observation only?

2 - pre-emptively treat?

and what does everyone reach for? Natural approaches like Indian almond leaf? otherwise my options are praziquantal or metronidazole

if anything like ich pops up, i'll have to address that, but if they look otherwise well, what would you do?

theyre also going into a large tank where theyre difficult to catch up if I need to put them back into a hospital tank, plus the large tank has alot of shrimp so I can't ever blanket treat that tank.