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I’ve suspected a gradual improvement, but I assumed I was just seeing what I wanted to see. Many have molted, and the color is back to normal with no hints of discoloration. The disease, as it started, looked like a reddish-pink overspray from a paint can. It gradually got darker, from tan, to brown, and then to a much darker brown. Only a few progressed to black spots, but they passed. The worst one I have now was dark brown, but she has now moved back into the light tank/pinkish color. Several have moved to a barely visible pink. Most are back to pure white.

So, good news. Marked, and I mean MARKED improvement on most of the crystals today. Only two have any real evidence of the disease. One of those two is the longest infected and furthest progression. However, they both show improvement as well. Multiple good molts, as well as one new berried female! I have just added another pellet dosed with the very diluted oregano oil before lights out. I can’t be sure, but I seem to be on the way out of this. Hopefully I see continued improvement, but I am optimistic as many of them are now, again, pearly white! Very excited. I’m not sure that I’m headed to victory, or of improvement will continue. However, they are molting well and breeding again. I hope that’s an indication of a win here

I honestly cannot say that the oregano oil was the only factor. I’ve used oregano oil, salt dips, H2O2, Temp Drops, and oregano on food. It seems to be improving, but a few have some minor discoloration. However, my worst female seems to show absolute improvement, but I’m gunning for her to completely recover before I declare myself completely out of the woods. I wish she would molt, I feel if she would molt it would eliminate the remainder.

Glad to see the oregano oil bring improvement and even reversal of the effects of the disease for you. If we had done nothing, the fatality of Chitinolytic disease would have been a certainty.

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Great to get some good news! I shall keep my fingers crossed it continues to improve and they breed to restock the tank! Simon

That's great to hear! Hopefully the berried female makes it and you can re-establish your colony. Keep an eye on them just in case, as I'm sure you have been. Was this improvement only noticed since you tried the oil in bacter AE, or gradual?

I did the BacterAE deal. The problem is most of them seem to be affected, some worse than others. But that is a good idea. Maybe I’ll try that! Thanks for the advice. at this point, the only thing I haven’t tried is antibiotics. I’m not excited to add something like that to the tank, though. They did go after the BacterAE as usual, hopefully the oil got into some of those particles?

Do you have some sort of clear plastic container that you could float in the tank so that you can just put the shrimp you want to treat in that with the treatment for a while and not affect the others. I am sure the shrimp will eat food if there is nothing else for it to eat in the container if you leave the shrimp in the container for enough time for it to start scavenging! I would be very careful after before, but I have never actually treated shrimps or fish, just tanks for hydra, but would definitely not want to treat a whole tank of inhabitants without trying just one first! Simon