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Were the 2 that died the ones with Scut on them? do you have an ammonia test? Check ammonia levels. In fact, check all water parameters and let us know what your tests results are. No planaria will kill off these parasites, and that can cause a spike in ammonia with all the dead parasites. But that depends on how many of them were in the tank/substrate. Always do a water change a day after treatment. If you still have Scut in the tank on your shrimps, a half dose of No Planaria is safer and should still be affective in dealing with parasites. I feel Genchem's dosage recommendation can be a bit too high to be honest. From a product marketing point of view, they want you to use up more than necessary and buy more, but it's not necessarily safe for all shrimps. Always start with a half dose for anyone else reading.

So I did some research on chimerism in shrimp today. It appears it is true chimerism and apparently some shrimp exhibiting are either sterile or unable to breed due to potentially mixed sex organs. I believe I know a common origin point of chimeras, and also that I know who the dam(?) of that shrimp is and that she conferred the trait. For now mum is the word until I test my theories by inbreeding the pair and or outbreeding the chimera.

Finally got photos of my chimera! I'm trying to find another for sale for crossings. Or maybe offspring as people don't want to part with them. Here is the 36 gal, mostly planted. EBB and metallic galaxies going in here today, for now. First scape. Tried a bunch of rocks to no end. Lost most of the slope. I think primordial was achieved though. 20+ plants, won't go into them unless someone asks. Been hitting them with gentle light, co2 and ferts. A ghostie just cuz. Red onyx are gorgeous and gregarious shrimp. Still haven't got a good photo of the emeralds and I'm sure everyone knows blue diamonds. I'll go hunt up pics of the shrimps incoming in the future so we can compare them to actual shrimps down the road. Adios

I don't keep Sulawesi shrimp. So if i buy the ingredients for it, they won't get used and will be a waste of my money. Hope you understand. If you still want to try making it look for Calcium Chloride Dihydrate Magnesium chloride hexahydrate Potassium chloride For Neos, you replace the Calcium sulphate with Calcium carbonate completely. So the formula will look like this ... Calcium carbonate CaCO3 60gm Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom Salt) MgSO4 35gm solubility of CaCO3 is a lot worse in water compared to CaSO4. The acidity in RO water will help. Cold RO water will help it dissolve more too. The CaCO3 needs to be pounded down as fine as possible to help it dissolve.

About a week ago, I noticed that one or two of my females appeared to have Scutariella (thanks for the post on parasites). Ordered Genchem no planaria off Amazon to treat the problem. I followed the recommendations on the parasites post for the first treatment last night and I have had 2 of my 9 neocaridina die today. I did not do a second dosing tonight as I am afraid of killing off my remaining shrimp. Any Thoughts?