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Hi,

This girls front nose(?) and feeler section on its head is facing upward. She been going all day like this. I moved something around in the tank so it is possible i did this (doh!).

Is this a physical injury? A molt in progress or gond wrong? or something else.

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Will she survive?

Cheers, Daz

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BlueBolts Shrimp Guru

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Ouch... Looks painful :-(. Looks like a moult gone wrong... Check your GH. Little hope if it stays that way...doubt that you could have caused that damamge, but I guess a thing possible. Good luck :-)

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Whoa dude! That's not a good look at all, maybe something happened after moulting to do that while she was still soft. Not sure if she'll survive & same whether it will got back at next moult, my concern is that it may impede the next moult & possibly cause mortality. :dejection:

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I am sure she looked perfectly fine yesterday? (she's one of two adults that i commonly see in the tank, she's pretty distinctive with the red side spots)

I was pretty careful when i moved the ornament around today so i did doubt that i plonked it on her.

Ill check gH tomoro.

Im glad the adults have produced offspring.

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This will definitely be molt related, I've had one of my rili's do this and I don't think she led a long and prosperous life. I really struggle with the gh/KH ratios in some of my tanks.

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kH = 3 and gH = 6. I would have thought this fine.

All i have on hand to increase hardness is yingshi, yuan stone, maybe i could find some bicarb soda. It's a 9 L tank however, a bit reluctant to haphazardly adjust gH with these things for one dodgy looking shrimp, all the the others look fine.

She is being rather active, sifting through the sand etc looking for food, maybe a little too frantically? (i did just feed them though)

Front end looks the same.

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All i have on hand to increase hardness is yingshi' date=' yuan stone, maybe i could find some bicarb soda. It's a 9 L tank however, a bit reluctant to haphazardly adjust gH with these things for one dodgy looking shrimp, all the the others look fine. [/quote']

No! Don't increase GH.

If anything, you'd want to decrease GH. High GH causes moulting issues.

Low calcium content in food and in water parameters, will also cause moulting issues.

Do you use RO water? Do a pure RO water change asap.

See if you can bring KH and GH down by one point each.

Certainly do NOT add bicarb soda.

Any idea what your Calcium and Magnesium levels are?

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jayc - this advice is for a cherry shrimp (these are rilis)?

I have water ageing, only two days old from tap tonight, usually wait three for changes in shrimp tanks. Tap water usually kH - 0 to 1 and tds 130. Need to fix pump on rain water tank.

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jayc - this advice is for a cherry shrimp (these are rilis)?

No, it's for all shrimps in general.

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This shrimp is still kicking, seems to be feeding, and today she looks almost normal (front has gone more forward) and i noticed a large molt just the other day. There are only two adult in there that it could have been from. Maybe a jolting and she has been able to 'adjust' it back to normal?

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That's good news.

Did you adjust the water parameters?

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Just a 25 to 33%-ish water change. only tested gh and kh that first time and not again. The molt was seen after the water change.

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This shrimp is still kicking' date=' seems to be feeding, and today she looks almost normal (front has gone more forward) and i noticed a large molt just the other day. There are only two adult in there that it could have been from. Maybe a jolting and she has been able to 'adjust' it back to normal?[/quote']

Really glad to hear it! Just goes to show how tough these shrimp can be I suppose

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Hi, 

 

Its been a while since i have visited the forum. This shrimp has survived and thrived and is alive today. She is the bluest and must mutant looking shrimp in the colony. She's from red rili blue body shrimp. 

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This colony has produced from velvet blue-like to clear red rili shrimp. I really should get some breeding tanks going. 

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Hi, 

 

Its been a while since i have visited the forum. This shrimp has survived and thrived and is alive today. She is the bluest and must mutant looking shrimp in the colony. She's from red rili blue body shrimp. 

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This colony has produced from velvet blue-like to clear red rili shrimp. I really should get some breeding tanks going. 

Usually when a shrimp eats black brush algae their guts turn red... But by the looks of your HC you probably don't have any in there....

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That red/black on its belly is external pigmentation, not something inside of it. No other shrimp in the colony has pigmentation there only on the top and bottom like a standard rili. 

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That red/black on its belly is external pigmentation, not something inside of it. No other shrimp in the colony has pigmentation there only on the top and bottom like a standard rili.

Oh when you said that, it sounds like (possibly) brown or black spot disease or shell disease.

Is there any signs of erosion or pits in the shell?

Check out the diseases sticky.

It's not normal to have coloration on the shell itself. Only time you see colour, from rusty brown to black, is due to bacterial infection.

Let's hope this is not the case.

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