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Very nice Johnny looks like you ended up getting the 5 pack of BB's, I am also getting the odd berried girl dying on me, really don't know what the problem is as heaps of other girls are dropping their babies everywhere. 2 this month now! today it was a berried tiger damn it! Hope the artificial hatching of eggs works.

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Oh man, you had berried tiger die? That would suck! Yeah scratching my head, all water parameters are fine.

I should ask my mrs for another tank! haha

I did alot of damage to my bank account starting with this taiwan and tiger bee stock! I hope I get as much fun and success with them as I do with my crystal shrimp.

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Yeah was really pissed as WP were fine, along with the successes there will be a few deaths that's just how it is...just pray that the success outweighs the disappointments. LOL!

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Yeah was really pissed as WP were fine' date=' along with the successes there will be a few deaths that's just how it is...just pray that the success outweighs the disappointments. LOL![/quote']

i got ya back bro :)

i just purchased a really nice dark blue oebt girl

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i got ya back bro :)

i just purchased a really nice dark blue oebt girl

Thanks Garry I always knew I could rely on you...BROooooooo!

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Yeah that's what I say, 'make sure you have heaps so that if one dies, you have heaps to replace it'. In saying that, one of my pandas died a few days after I introduced it into the crystal shrimp tank- the new tank had trace amounts of ammonia and I didn't want to risk it. Still, lost a couple of hundred just like that!

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Yeah that's what I say' date=' 'make sure you have heaps so that if one dies, you have heaps to replace it'. In saying that, one of my pandas died a few days after I introduced it into the crystal shrimp tank- the new tank had trace amounts of ammonia and I didn't want to risk it. Still, lost a couple of hundred just like that![/quote']

Hurts doesn't it? But once you have little ones running around the tank it eases the pain so much more...

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Get those lids on guys

will also stop evaporation

all it takes is 1 little bit of incense,purfume,cologne

could even be from the mrs with the cleaning products

i have banished the mrs $200 a bottle purfume to the spare room

just remember if you can smell it then its in the air :)

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Get those lids on guys

will also stop evaporation

all it takes is 1 little bit of incense' date='purfume,cologne

could even be from the mrs with the cleaning products

i have banished the mrs $200 a bottle purfume to the spare room

just remember if you can smell it then its in the air :)[/quote']

Yeah I have lids on all my tanks but there will always be some way, just like the toxic fumes incident I had a while back, even with lids on it almost wiped out all my shrimp.

@Johnny if you want to clean up a few of these posts go for it as it is a journal correct?

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It's part of my journal chi. All good. It is hard to put lids on with breeder boxes, air intake, and filter hoses in my tank. I'm still thinking of a way how to.

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Awesome looking shrimp dude, :encouragement: spewing about the losses for both of you guys :dejection:

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It's part of my journal chi. All good. It is hard to put lids on with breeder boxes' date=' air intake, and filter hoses in my tank. I'm still thinking of a way how to.[/quote']

Maybe you can get acrylic or clear plastic lids and cut out the parts where the breeders and lines, etc go. I have plastic lids on mine, just used a saw and drill etc to cut of bits so the boxes, etc can fit snugly.

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I like having no lids, it aids evaporation which helps to lower the temperatures, just need a top up with RO then in small quantities. I loose maybe 2 - 3 litres per week tops.

And with using air filters you're always going to have fumes as you're pumping in air, that's the other reason I switched back to internal filters, that and the noise from running large air pumps.

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Jon, did you quarantine the PRL before letting it loose in the tank? Do you run UV filtration?

I had unexplained deaths for a very long time until I was down to only a handful of shrimp. After months and months of devastation I got a UV filter and deaths stopped.

I always quarantine new stock for a minimum of 2 weeks in a hand on breeder on the tank they are going into.

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Hey fox, mystery deaths have occurred before the prl was introduced.

I might try a uv filter. Im trying everything.

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Jonny, I experienced the same problem last year and it wiped out most of my CRS and CBS colonies. I too tried everything, and contacted different members via PM for advice. I also bought UV sterilisers for the affected tanks. Initially I thought they helped, but the deaths continued for quite some time afterwards. I'm convinced that there is a bacterial-type infection going around, that may not be waterborne.

To often you read on the forum about people having slow die-offs when they seem to be following the exact same routines as others and their water parameters are in the safe zone. I believe because we trade shrimp around so frequently that the problem is so common.

My tanks have been stable for some time now and I have lots of shrimplets surviving etc, but I will wait a few more months before I can say that I'm convinced the trouble is over.

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I believe the problem is cause by bacterial infection from adding new shrimps to the tank. With my new rack, I try to avoid this as much as possible. I have 3 bloodline of tb ATM and I will mix them for the next 2 years untill I add new bloodline.

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I really like Benibachi Super Fine grain soil. I purchased it keeping in mind that the grain size would be small enough for the shrimp to pick it up and forage off from it.

Here is a clip of some tigers doing so. =)

http://youtu.be/VSyiVvqvp9E

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She looks like she's trying to dig her way to China! I have UV steralisers but still didn't help with berried girls dying! Really P'ing me off!

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She looks like she's trying to dig her way to China! I have UV steralisers but still didn't help with berried girls dying! Really P'ing me off!

The big blue is a he. Wish it was a she!

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The big blue is a he. Wish it was a she!

You sure looks like it has a curved belly unless it is just the camera angle?

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