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Morning all, So i thought I might update this thread for any others experiencing necrosis issues. Thanks once again for your advice @jayc! After 3 treatments of oregano oil, (at @jayc‘s recommended dosage with 3 different foods, 2 x commercial pellets, one of fresh blanched peas) AND increasing my 20% weekly PWC change to 50% twice weekly - my deaths in this tank have stopped. There are still a few w/advanced stages of cell degeneration showing. It appears to have stopped in its tracks for now. First berries in 6-8 weeks have just been spied also. Perhaps too early to say if the issue has stoped completely.

i agree disease amongst shrimp i so small it wouldn't warrant a book so perhaps i need to look for a book that integrates all shrimp and related disease, at present the best i can find is here on SKF which covers quite a lot and is quick and easy to access, thanks for the response anyway sdlBfanUK Didnt realise your not far from me

Well snowflake is not a type of food that Shrimp will flock to in droves. But we use it as a great holiday food, that can be added into the tank and does not break down for days. It doesn't foul the water even if it is left in the tank for a week. Shrimp don't eat snowflake straight away when it's dropped into the tank. They will only start nibbling at it after a couple of days when it softens. Snowflake is just a fancy name for what it actually is ... this is actually soy husks. The same soy husks that are fed to horses. Sold in 25kg bags for a fraction of the price paid when it is relabelled as shrimp food. It's a by product of making tofu. This ^^^ isn't really food either. It's just minerals in a pellet form. Can't blame the shrimp for not eating it. It probably doesn't taste like food. No comment on these two. Have not used them. But they seem to have some .... exotic (weird) ingredients. Just because humans will eat chia seeds, doesn't mean a shrimp will. Healing Earth - WTF! My suggestion would be to try a feeding schedule of once every 3 days. So you are only feeding them once every 3 days. Mix it up with some fresh food, instead of using processed food. Veges, leaves, flowers are a great supplement, just blanch and drop into the tank. If you want a little project, try my DIY food.

Depends on what food you add in. I have not seen shrimp ignore my DIY food ... yet.? But in general, YES, if you have enough biofilm in the tank, the shrimp prefer to eat that over unappetising food. And it looks like you are adding enough bacter AE & genchem biozyme to be developing biofilm. What food is it that they are not eating?