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Update: Disease is going away. Only 1-2 even show discoloration. I’m not sure if it’s the filter nuke and adding fresh bacteria, changing feeding, water changes, or a combo of all was the fix, but they are all eating and very active. Black Beard Algae is also receding and nearly gone! A HUGE thanks to everyone who helped me get through this! I built a tiny photo tank, today, to make macro shots easier. It’s 3” x 1” x 2” I’m dimensions. I need to work on lighting, and a better camera on my phone would help too.

It’s hard to do, but you can see tiny black specs on the eggs. I wanted to transfer one to the photo tank, to get a macro shot, but decided against it. I didn’t want to stress a mama out and have her drop eggs so close to them hatching.

I drastically pulled back adding any god to the tank. That included Glasgarten powders like Baxter AE and Shrimp Fit. Water changes. Continued H2O2 treatments. Easy Carbo was also used as a spot treatment along side H2O2. Additionally, I really only had a few isolated tuffs of the BBA. I was desperately trying to get ahead of it before it really took off. You’re very right. The major turn around came as I used the bacteria and changed feeding schedules. I feel confident that killing off the filter bacteria with a high level of H2O2, and reading proper bacterial cultures is what changed things for the better. The change was rapid. @beanbag solved the problem with the DR Tim’s, I’m confident of that. The change was rapid and obvious. The shrimp act like different creatures now. Shells are losing the Discoloration and pitting. You can still see a few pita on the old girl in the picture above. As a reference, her white areas were tan- brown and he shell looked to be 10x worse with pits everywhere. All shrimp are voracious eaters now. I suspect that the bacteria/ water quality was having a greater affect than I estimated. They are like whole new shrimp. 2x as active.

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Oh never knew you could see the eyes. That's cool! I would say see if you can count the eggs, you'll probably get 2-5 more than you can count. That's my dumb logic, not sure if it would actually work. Dang, now I'm tempted to look for eyes in my TTS eggs. Good luck when they pop! -Crabby

That's fantastic! Congrats! Really happy for ya. Brilliant idea with that photo tank, might have to try that one out myself some time. Never thought about that. Also may I ask, what do you think fixed that BBA? I'm going through some sort of 6 month long BBA battle in my 29 gallon fish tank right now, eager to hear from someone on the other side. Great job Steen. -Crabby

Thanks! I’m starting to see eyes on the eggs, for all three berried females. They should be dropping in the near future. How many babies should I expect from each mama?

I would expect around 15-20 to be a normal batch, they can get 30 and sometimes less than 15 but cherry shrimp do usually have more babies than bee shrimp. they may not all survive though and don''t panic if you don't see any for a few days after the eggs disappear as they are soooo tiny and hide when born. Simon

Great news, and a great photo! That is the biggest drawbaack with doing so many treatments and changes at the same time, you don't then know what actually solved the problems for future reference should it re--occur? Hopefully though you will be fine from here onward! Simon

I just want to thank you for all the help you have given... I finally found distilled water and got the tds down to 220 gh 6 kh 2 ph 7.4 ish my question is how do I mix in the gh kh plus from salty shrimp into the new ro water. Do I mix 5 gallon jugs at a time? cause when I add it mixed to my tank water my tds goes from 220 to 360 with just half a measurement cup full for a 10 gallon tank. was trying to raise it a tad. But the tds spiked what an I doing wrong?? i added it to a gallon of the tank water.

Fish are most at risk at night, when they rest and stay motionless. Any bottom dweller is at the highest risk. Mid to top dwellers like angelfish fair better,as they keep out of reach of the cray. I don't want to tell you that you cannot keep fish with crays, but you need to be aware of the risk of loosing fish. So don't buy anything you don't want to lose.