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I think that one might have either Milk Disease or Muscular Necrosis. I don't know a lot about them but I can share this site and this forum's own discussion about shrimp diseases. https://aquariumbreeder.com/understanding-dwarf-shrimp-diseases-and-parasites/

Gotta do something about that high KH first, in order for IAL and driftwood to be effective. Even changing out 20% of your tank water with rain water collected by leaving out buckets will be a change for more favourable tank parameters.

Possibly a better way to fix the problem, instead of continually battling the high pH and hardness, is to find the source of the problem and remove it. Usually (unless you just have hard tap water) it'll be the rocks or substrate.

I do use IAL and have driftwood and cholla wood, but no peat moss. I'll look into it. Thank you everyone for the advice.

Other options of reducing hardness and pH would be IAL, peat moss (such as sphagnum or similar) or driftwood.

It probably doesn't hurt to start taking steps to reduce the parameters you have. A fourth option is collecting rain water and remineralise it up to the ideal parameters your shrimp needs.

I believe it did lighten up, but still had notable white coloration. All shrimp did start out red. I do have a fair amount of evaporation. I need to get a lid that doesn't get in the way of my filter, probably a custom cut piece of glass/acrylic. Since my stats are about double, is a viable option to do half RO and half tap to give me the proper parameters? I might need to experiment with that before using it in my tank. I was doing higher water changes to help with any disease, but if it's just the parameter then the filter will just do it's job. I'm considering switching substrates from eco-complete to ADA to help with the pH, but that would mean housing my fish elsewhere for a couple weeks which I don't have the room for.

Hey Guys, I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out. I am a first-time shrimp owner. Four days ago I came home to find that one of my poor ghost shrimp ladies has this weird blue/white moldy looking coloration on her head, primarily on her rostum. She is otherwise still moving around, eating normally, and not hiding. I've done some internet sleuthing (I was leaning towards possible vorticella or bacterial infection), but haven't yet found anything that fits the description and was hoping someone may have run into this before. Link to pictures Tank: - 5 gallon, long. Fully cycled, 2.5 months old - Houses 4 ghost shrimp (all female), 1 betta, and approx 9 baby shrimp in a breeding net. - Filter (sponge) + Heater. Shrimp have been in the tank with no problem for about a month Water Params (as of November 8, 2020) - PH 8.2 - Amm: 0-0.25 - NI: 0 - NA: 5 ppm - Temp: 78 Treatment so far: Day 1: 50% WC, and dosed 6ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide (with filter removed). Day 2: Did the same hydrogen treatment, with no change in the shrimp. Day 3: Removed all of the plants from tank and dosed 4.5tbsp aquarium salt, with plans to do a PWC later in the week to slowly phase out the salt. Day 4: 60 second salt dip (ratio of 1tbsp/cup) for all my shrimp and the above hydrogen peroxide treatment. I fear that whatever the white-ness is has spread to at least one other shrimp due to a noticeable color change in her legs and pleopods Anyone have any idea what this is? I'm not sure if I should quarantine the sick shrimp or just treat the whole tank at this point, as I'm not sure if it's contagious. Thank you in advance!