so after yesterday's debacle with the TDS pen today started off really bad!  Recently I purchased some OEBT from Disciple but shortly after they arrived I noticed their tank had some planaria despite having been cleaned and left without shrimp for several weeks before the Tigers came. I treated the tank with planaria zero as per instructions and then I did the requisite water change. Over the last week that tank had a white bloom which I thought was a bit of the zero floating around. I wasn't happy with it so put an internal power filter with Some macro pore in it. I left it running for a few days but Tuesday night well 2 am Wednesday morning ( I have trouble sleeping so I'm often up at that time)I took the filter out as the shrimp were hiding all the time and it hadn't made a lot of difference. Usually I clean out the filter to check no shrimp had got into it but at 2 am I didn't think mistake number 1 . Today - Thursday- I couldn't see my Tigers except for 1 and felt quite depressed and upset. I haven't had too many shrimp room problems but if I do it's usually major!!!!  Anyway I pulled all the plants and moss out and put them into a bucket that already had plants and water in - mistake number 2!  I usually check plants and driftwood for shrimp but not today' I decided to catch out the shrimp - I had put a number of females into the tank to make some Tibees- I found only 2 Tigers and there should have been more. I took out the water , cleaned the filters and refilled the tank. Now usually I put salty shrimp in to The water before I put it into the tank but today I didn't mistake number 3 - I didn't do it today as I wasn't sure what parameters I wanted and of course I didn't have my TDS pen. 

I next went to the power filter and changed the media and sure enough there were shrimp in the filter - damn they had been in there for over 24 hours but luckily there was still some water in it. 4 Tigers and 2 Taitibees swam around the container thank goodness I had put the filter into an ice cream container instead of emptying it into the sink. I put them into the satellite box to warm them up and acclimatise them to the tank they were going into. Save number 1

next I went to the plant bucket which had spare plants plus the plants from the Tiger tank , it had been standing for about a week so was quite cold and had no filtration. After finding shrimp in the filter I thought I better check the bucket so using several containers I checked plants and driftwood and sure enough some more tigers were found. Save number 2

after checking the plants I redecorated the tank which had been topped up with straight RO water plus a layer of new substrate. I went back to check the shrimp and looked at the tank and there was a poor lone Tiger frantically swimming in the tank. Not only had it been plunged into a bucket of cold water it was then taken out and plunged into a tank of straight RO. Save number 3 . I caught the poor guy and put him into the satellite tank and re acclimatised him. He must have been hiding on the driftwood which I thought I had checked. 

Now you see why I said silly old woman. I made 3 stupid mistakes that I would normally never do - can I claim a seniors moment for that ! 1 would have been bad enough but 3 is very bad! The shrimp are all acclimatised to their new tank and seem to be ok but I guess I won't know for a few days how they go. I think I found all my lost Tigers though!

got my fingers crossed for you ineke

Oh boy, what a day you have had.

I too had a similar one today, though only 1 incidence, not 3.

I have a bucket of baby Killi fish (aphyosemion bitaeniatum), which I normally have a lid on the bucket to stop them jumping out. Well last night after feeding them I forgot to put the lid back down. And guess what, this evening I go to feed them and find a dried out baby fish next to the bucket ! Silly me. 

These guys are rare, so the loss is even more heartbreaking.

 

I guess we all make mistakes.

Oh no don't you hate that such an easy mistake to make! 

Well luckily they are all good.

I recently was moving shrimp to a breeder box. I usually keep man hand over the net to prevent but this time i didnt and shrimp managed to jump out all the way to the floor. When i went to pick it up it continued to jump all the way under my cabinet ?

I have had to pick up many shrimp from the floor! I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Don't worry, I think I've been using an incorrectly calibrated PH meter, and I'm an instrument tech by trade.

Moral of the story is that this hobby is fickle.