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She was not carrying eggs at the time when I first saw her. I don't know if she was and ditched them first, but I do know there were a few that weren't berried. Now that I think back, I did have one female that was a bit questionable and maybe this one was it. Early on when I first added them to my tank, I believe she developed the white ring or line of death. They were able to molt and I thought she was in the clear. It's possible this one was older at the time of arrival, so she may not had adapted to my water parameters. Maybe she just got lucky until yesterday. I started with 12 shrimp and currently have 10. My earliest berried shrimp had maybe 5 eggs that I could see. I don't believe she has them any more but I have yet to see any shrimplets in my tank ? Most of my other females are all in varied stages but I think it will still be awhile (weeks) before I see any. I honestly question the stock of my bloody mary. They were sold to me as such but I think I got a mixed bag. I believe there are some mid to high grade cherries mixed in. One of them even has the "racing stripe" down their back which from what I read is not found in true bloody marys. I paid about $3.50 USD each, shipped. It wasn't a terrible price if I did get primarily high grade or bloody mary shrimp. I've seen ones for sale online for double or triple the price I paid for bloody mary. My LFS even wants $5+ USD a piece for a random imported neo! At the end of the day though, I enjoy my shrimp and love them just the same.

Sorry to hear that, hopefully she wasn't carrying eggs (it doesn't look like it from what I can see). From the photo she looks to be an adult shrimp so assuming you don't know how old she was when you got her, she may have been old when you got her. I can't see anything obviously wrong with her. If shee did have eggs hopefully they hatched before she died? I have re-read this thread and would recommend you stop using plant ferts (these should only be needed anyway if there are no creatures in the tank, also C02 isn't advised with shrimp), you shouldn't need those with livestock present and if the shrimp aren't eating the additional food then stop feeding that for now as there must be enough natural food (biofilm) for them, but when your shrimp numbers grow you may want/need to start adding additional food then. A lot of foods come in hard pellet form and I just use a hammer to break those up (in a bag otherwise it goes everwhere). The food and ferts may explain the rising parameters and be causing/encouraging the fungus. How many shrimp do you have in this 9 gallon tank? If you started with 10 and now have 8 you shouldn't need additional food! And losing 2 of 10 (in the first month or so) has happened to me before on several occassions when bought through the post, in fact that is what I expect when I buy them! Sometimes it is less (than 20%) but that to me is a bonus........... I am hoping to be restocking my bloody mary shrimp tank very soon, I have ordered a new tank (old one built in light broken) which friends should be bringing and setting up tomorrow, so they will take as many of the 'wild' type boring shrimp for their general fish tank, and I can restock with bloody marys which will be great. I know after a few years the wild type will be in majority again unless I keep up with culling the poor quality ones. I will not have as many plants/weed/moss this time and the tank will be a bit bigger than the old (30L) one, similar to yours I think (40L).

Sadly, it looks like I'm about to loose a second shrimp due to molting issue. I found it laying down like this in the morning. About 30 minutes later, it was gone and it seemed like all my shrimp were normal. There was no molt near where the shrimp was laying. Then some more time has passed, I find a shrimp (assuming the same) laying in the back of the tank holding onto roots of a plant. It was moving it's pleopods at the time. Then a little a bit later, I see a shrimp franticly jerking all over the tank until it settled down in another corner of the tank. It's looking pretty bleak now though. It is twitching a little but not moving much at all. Now a second bad molt in about a week time is getting me worried again. I did see a fresh molt from presumably another shrimp. I'd hate to think these 2 shrimp were duds, since they all did so well and had multiple molts until this point. At the same time, I'd hate to think that something is wrong with my tank too. I did a GH and KH test again and it does appear the GH and KH does continue to creep. I had somewhat of an explanation (excuse) last week but now I'm really not sure. I kind of doubt a tiny pinch of mineral junkies would raise it noticeably enough if it were to dissolve into the water, since my shrimp currently don't care for anything I feed them, but I left it in the dish. GH and KH after last water change was GH 6, KH 5 and testing today is GH 7 and KH 6. PH continues to stay high, which is really odd for RODI water, even remineralized. Edit: after giving all she got, all day, she didn't make it ?