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in my experience...less is more..let em chill.seems to me...even RCS much prefer stability...and are much more resilient than much advise would allude. Though I have had my struggles. I find it is virtually impossible to underfeed. with a few plants especially.but easier to overfeed. good luck.

Most likely to be Biofilm. Do you see your shrimp eating it?

Hello I’ve just been looking at my aquarium and I have just noticed something else I have these very very tiny like worms on the glass hard to see in the picture can anyone advice please thanks they look bigger in the picture cause it’s zoomed in but they are definitely alive and moving around the glass.

If they are tigers they will be fine in the same parameters so no need to worry about that. I'm not seeing any evidence of the interior changing colour except maybe the very bottom last shrimp. Swimming around like loonies is usually because there is a female ready to mate in the tank and they (males) are trying to find her! JayC is more of an expert on health problems and he will probably be on here later! I would expect one or two to die within the first month from stress of travel etc so try not to over-react as you could actually make things worse. Just carry on with the salt baths where needed and let the others settle in (keep them in the net for now if they are already in there until JayC has had a say, just to be sure). Simon

You said that a couple looks like tiger shrimp if they turn out to be do they require anything else

They were all blue except one that was a very light blue and now turned red anyways these have gone a funny patch like and they are extremely sluggish three keep swimming around upside down as if they are disoriented. I was looking at the sick shrimp advice here and it was saying that the shrimp internals can turn a different colour if it’s bacterial and I’m sure I’m seeing that in a couple I wish I had taken a little video of them in the tank before I removed them to show you. I would be very happy if I’m wrong

I'm not sure what I am supposed to be looing at specificaly! Some are low grade but did they look like that to start with? Getting them off ebay I would expect mixed grades as they are likely from a hobbyist? Some look more like blue tiger shrimp? What are you looking at that you are not happy about? Simon

I cant see anything concerning from this picture, they may just be detritis worms, every tank has those. I've not seen them on the glass though, they usually stay in the substrate or on plants etc? Planaria are a different shape and hydra look like an umbrella frame at one end! Simon

Yeah I have, now not so worried thanks

I’m sorry, I’m trying to believe you, but there is no chance an Apple snail could eat a healthy shrimp. They wouldn’t try it, and they wouldn’t be able to. Unless the shrimp was incredibly sick, or dead, it just wouldn’t happen.

I’m really gutted and angry and annoyed with my self I had done what I thought was loads of research checking I had everything and was doing things correctly well I’ve noticed at the back of the tank I had a dead shrimp so I started to search them all out to give them a good look over and I’ve found some are not well they are definitely infected with something I’ve given the article here a read so I’m going to try and fix the problems. Here’s a picture of the sick ones I’ve separated them from the others any other information on how to treat would be a great help thanks