Anyone else have trouble keeping fire shrimp alive?

alyssia

alyssia

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Originally Posted by Oceanists
yeah me too, he is one of the best singers of all time , i was stoked to find a bluish pic like that, I just saw them for the 9th time , it was AWESOME, I got to hear them warmup the played a really different version of stinkfist when they warmed up , nobody could see them they wouldnt let anybody to their seats untill they were done warming up .... but it sounded awesome

Excuse me! How dare you hijack my thread!
j/k
 
codylowe

codylowe

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I had a fire shrimp for about 2 weeks before it croaked on me. I do dose iodine and the shrimp molted 3 times in this two week period - a little much huh?
Right before feeding the tank he was out on top of a rock, then when i go to grab my thawed food, i come back and he is laying upside down on the substrate. All my parameters have been great. I don't know why he kicked it.
I bought another one yesterday and i hope he does well. I love their coloring.
 
anonome

anonome

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Alyssia, I have had the same two for 21 months....I really think it has a lot to do with how it was caught, and acclimated with the lfs. Mine have been awesome, however, I have a friend that I have helped acclimate 2 fireshrimp, and both have died after 1 month of entering the tank with perfect water. Don't give up.....but they are definately pricey.
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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have had mine for 3yrs, longer than every fish and coral I have. has been at two houses, in two tanks, FOWLR and Reef.
 
shrimpi

shrimpi

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Originally Posted by puffer32
I bought one afew months back, my water quality is great btw, and it lasted about 1 week and then died for no apparent reason, I have other types that are just fine, so who knows. They are to expensive to try again, so I will do without one lol.
I bought two (a fortune later) and one died about a week after I got it. The weird thing was that he was in the back of the tank in the morning and what looked like he was having trouble molting-- was way weird. When I got home later he had fully molted .... and died. so why would he molt and die within hours of eachother?
friggin stupid. the other one is still kickin and its been 6mos. I also have a skunk cleaner and a pepp. shrimp.
 
puffer32

puffer32

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Some times molting will kill them. If you don't have enough iodine in your water it struggles to molt, and they die.
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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well mine kicked the bucket sometime over night. I'm sure this thread and my boasting on how long it has lived put a mojo on it. I think it just lived out its life cycle since I've had it 3yrs and got it as a full size adult (that and everything else in the tank is just fine).
Long nose hawkfish here I come!
 
grabbitt

grabbitt

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Originally Posted by Stanlalee
Long nose hawkfish here I come!
Sorry to bring this thread back when one foot is already in the ground, but this brings up aconcern of mine. I have a longnose hawkfish in my 30 gallon, but he's a little guy for now. In fact, he doesn't even bother my peppermint shrimp... yet. However, as much as I would like a blood shrimp, I would be pretty ticked off to lose 36 bucks (blood shrimp are expensive at my LFS
)to the little guy than six. How much of a risk would I be taking?
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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Originally Posted by GRabbitt
Sorry to bring this thread back when one foot is already in the ground, but this brings up aconcern of mine. I have a longnose hawkfish in my 30 gallon, but he's a little guy for now. In fact, he doesn't even bother my peppermint shrimp... yet. However, as much as I would like a blood shrimp, I would be pretty ticked off to lose 36 bucks (blood shrimp are expensive at my LFS
)to the little guy than six. How much of a risk would I be taking?
well I no longer want the longnose but these are the kinds of things I have been hearing ALOT: "no I havent seen it happen personally but its a definate threat to shrimp" "I kept mine with a cleaner shrimp without issues but they arent to be trusted with shrimp" pretty much the same thing you hear about mystery wrasses and flame hawks. helps to have the shrimp first and big shrimp, small fish. I'm just going to do without shrimp because I still have the itch for a hawkfish just not the longnose.
 
kilhullen

kilhullen

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Is the problem these people are having likely to be because of struggling to molt? It would seem that way to me if one person who always doses for iodine witout testing has great shrimp, and people who don't test and don't dose can't keep them.
I am curious because the Fire Shrimp was one I wanted when we start stocking our tank(s).
Is it better to get small ones and prepare for lots of molting? Or larger ones which *may* have been wild caught and therefore harder and riskier to acclimate?
 
miaheatlvr

miaheatlvr

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Trick to the shrimps isthe acclimation process and just really getting lucky and "getting a good one" EVERYBODY here will tell you they have been through one or more cleaners or fires.
 
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