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😲that's my shocked face. Your water parameters are fine. There is a possibility, and I stress possibility, that the other shrimps attacked it. It's pure speculation. But I have seen my male shrimps go bonkers over a female shrimp during breeding, to the point of killing the female. Over exuberant mating session. I had too many males to females ratio in that tank. I took 50% of the males out. Another possibility is that the shrimps are lacking some sort of nutrition and they think it can only be obtained by eating meat proteins. In this case try feeding frozen blood worms once a week, replacing the normal food you would normally feed them. Frozen bloodworms are a great source of proteins for breeding, especially for the female shrimps. Never saw it again after the steps above. Doesn't mean it didn't happen again, just never saw it personally.

I had a look last night and saw the following on ebay from UK sellers (there are more sellers than just this one), it isn't meant for shrimp but for Koi, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403847496794?hash=item5e072fc45a:g:AT0AAOSwFZhiuvLi&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoELtkxX0y1eOp0VY6LduoJ1NkgqHvNf9m%2BxDA9nwGWMeHXPlhuBuoHLz1Hg4c9dLBF19lNew47GjxpEg14BP%2BbkhhYZuDGT93wbzXt%2B4mrA1W6sKEw5AXPJ07QZDU%2BAl80M7ezmebad84QXyk52N9Mdiwl5eFUvOOzDWcs2Q22Rvmc8ngUZDsbBkWrSF1Zf%2B18Q39XFt9sOtFyCNAitt7DY%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6LrtPDZYA Depending on where you want to go next, ie is it worth the expense, time and hassle of trying to treat (especially if it only appears to be one shrimp affected), it may be worth trying the above by adding one small drop at a time (a day) to the seperated container and see if it works, but it would be an 'experiment' and you have little to lose as the shrimp will probably die off anyway??? You should probably remove some water from the shrimp container and mix in the medication well, and then return that water to the shrimp container (slowly), rather that just put the medication straight into the shrimp container water with the shrimp in situ. There is also the link from JayC but I don't see that as a product we have in the UK so I don't know whether that is 'legal' here? It appears to be the same Koi product but doesn't show up on UK Amazon when I tried and don't know which country it would come from? Hopefully you only have the one affected shrimp and as you have seperated it quickly, fingers crossed it wasn't spread in the tank?

Hi @sdlTBfanUK thank you so much for the tips and advice, I will start looking and hunting for all those things mentioned :)

Did the salt bath work? Didn't think a salt bath would have worked, but I'm opening to learning new methods of treatment. Here is an Amazon link to a product https://a.co/d/97dwbNn Also, can I use your photo for the Disease and Diagnostics thread?

Oh, thank you. I tried a salt bath last night after a bit of research. I'll see if I can find any of those products. I'm in the UK...

Hi there, just joined this forum as I'm relatively new to shrimp keeping and I'm having an issue that has me stumped. For context I have a dedicated tank (5 gallon) just for some bloody mary neo caridinas. But over the last few weeks since I got them, they have been dying one by one and I find them literally in pieces (I've attached photos as reference). I have no other fish in the tank except some tiny snails and I cannot see any form of parasites (not even a single scud) in the tank. I've estimated I lost around 10 of them so far. Here are my water parameters: FYI I use RO water with Shrimp King mineral salts , I only top off water when needed and have avoided water changes for now as the TDS is stable at 180PPM - TDS 180 - PH 6.5-6.6 - GH 6 - KH 1-2 - Zero ammonia, zero nitrites and zero nitrates - Temperature is steady at 21 degree C (room temp with no heater) - I have a sponge filter and a eheim compact filter that has a net so that shrimp don't get sucked in. - For a small tank its very heavily planted with driftwood and lots of moss and plants I think the PH maybe a little soft for a neo caridina but I cant imagine its lethal? I can only assume its molting gone wrong (which is why they're in pieces). If the water is so bad I thought that they'd die en masse? But it's always been just one at a time, max 2. I even have one female that is berried and I'm extremely anxious that something is going to happen to her. Any help or insight would be helpful as I cannot diagnose what the problem is. Thank you!