Fungus on cherry shrimp?

[kgoh88]

I just got 10 cherry shrimps today,and i noticed that there were whitish stuff on the cherry shrimps....Is it fungus?The whitish stuff look abit like cotton wool. This is how they look like:

[Robert]

Hi,
yes, it is possible for shrimps to get diseases like fungus, bacteria infection etc. . I never saw such thing before and don't know a way to treat it. But I will inform me about it to help you.

Best regards

Robert

[Walter]

Same here, back where he posted in AF forum, I don't know any ways to cure it as well. :(

Hope your shrimps are fine, but sad thing is usually shrimps that have any sickness should die shortly before they can even be treated. Furthermore they are sensitive to many chemicals. Good luck.. :shocked:

[gigahertz]

I'm sorry about your shrimp. I would immediately seperate them from the rest to not risk spreading it to other uninfected ones.

[kgoh88]

Is it possible that the shrimp is getting ready to moult or something?It breaks my heart to see my newly-bought shrimps get struck down by some kind of fungus...

[gigahertz]

I wonder if H2O2 will do anything to the infection, what do you think Robert? :huh:

[Robert]

Hi,
I wouldn't add H2O2 because you cannot foresee its effect. I can't imagine why it should harm only the fungus and not the whole shrimp. These shrimp are definitely not healthy and their immune system is weak or they wouldn't get such a disease. So to add hydrogen peroxid should stress them even more because it is a very strong oxidizer.

Best regards

Robert

[gigahertz]

Good point Robert!

I was thinking about putting this shrimp for a dip in a much diluted solution of H2O2 but that might not have any effect on the fungus and might kill the already weakened shrimp in the process.

[retardo]

Wow, never seen or heard of fungus growing on shrimp, unless they were already dead. Sorry to hear. I don't know if there are any meds out there that can get rid of the fungus but not harm the shrimp. If you haven't done so already, follow GHz's advice and move this shrimp into a hospital tank by itself to avoid contaminating anything else in the tank. Make sure the tank is fully cycled and feed sparingly, so the water conditions don't go south too quickly. Plants may help also, so it at least has some place to hide. Hopefully, the fungus will go away by itself and your shrimp will recover. Good luck.

[Robert]

Hi,
I asked an expert for an advice here. He answered me that it is a fungus infection caused by Achlya. He said that the product CILLEX by Brustman should help here. I don't know if you can find it in Singapore, too. Oh, and the expert would like to get the pictures for his own German speaking website about shrimp diseaes. The original ones would be best. So it would be nice if you can send them to me and I would send them then to him.

Best regards

Robert

[dom]

My blue shrimp having same fungus. The fungus is in green color. I was thought that is eggs. But already months, the "eggs" still there...

Currently quarantine the shrimp. But it is still kicking...eating and living well.

[thapsus]

Greetings to all.
I have same problem with my shrimps.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/thapsus/P6010003u.jpg
I think I got it when I introduced new shrimps to my tank. Fungus seems to be very contagious. I didn't move first sick shrimp right away to quaranteen tank and now it seem that all my shrimps - adults and fry - have it. :embarasse

My shrimps are active and eat normally. It doesn't seem to bother them that much. It also disappears for a while when shrimp molt but it seems to come back. I'm scared how it will affect to baby shrimps.

Any new information? What can I do to help my shrimps? Keep water excellent, give them vitamins, varied feeding. And try to get this Cillex somewhere.

This is absolutely awful. :cry:

[thapsus]

Can't find this cillex anywhere. I'm thinking of tryin Malachite green or
salt bath. Maybe Tetra FungiStop? Sera Ectopur?

[silane]

thapsus,

Do you want to consider to use methylene blue? From what I know it is milder than Malachite green and could be more suitable for shrimps.

[rain-]

I was taking pictures of my newly arrived pregnant White Pearl and it looks like it has some fungus on it's head. What do you think? There isn't much, but I think I should treat her so it doesn't spread. I have methylene blue and Tetra GeneralTonic (Aminoacridine, Acriflavine, Ethacridine, Methylene Blue).

I've had many generations of shrimps, but this is the first time I actually have one that might be ill. I feel a bit helpless.

Here you can see the body colour (the head is overexposured and is actually the same hue as the rest of the body):
http://sademetsa.net/whitepearl.jpg

And here you can see the stuff on her body:
http://sademetsa.net/whitepearl1_.jpg

Closeup of the head:
http://sademetsa.net/whitepearlhead.jpg

[rain-]

I treated it with methylene blue and it seemed to work. She also gave birth to the babies (and some of them are still alive and kicking), but then the air pump broke (of course when I wasn't home) and I think the shrimp died because of the lack of oxygen. I don't believe the methylene blue killed it. But I am going to search for the Cillex and get some so I will have a proper treatment if this happens again in the future.

[silane]

rain,

That's a good news (I don't mean the dead shrimp, but the cure of fungus).

What is the dosage of methylene blue you use? Did you dose directly into the tank or took the sick shrimp out?

[Walter]

Yeap would you like to share the dosage? Because from what I know, if methelene blue is overdosed, it will kill beneficial bacteria as well, which is not good for the tank. So do be careful. ;)

[rain-]

I treated it in a separate container. But unfortunately I can't find the paper where I wrote the dosage I used and I have a bad memory :(

[Walter]

Haha I see, it's ok then. :) No problem at all...

[rain-]

I'm sure the paper is here somewhere :D But well, since the shrimp died, even though it looked like it died because of the air pump stopped working and the container was rather tiny, I can't be 100% certain that the methylene blue is a good way to treat fungus. It did work, but...

Well, it looks like I can't find the Cillex from anywhere, so if I get a shrimp with fungus in the future, I will use methylene blue again and then put the results and amounts on the computer and not on a small piece of paper.

But it think the dose was 1,5 ml of methylene blue to 1 litre of water. I remember thinking about using half dose of the recommended dose for quarantine tanks.

[rain-]

So, did I buy the right medicine? Brustmann Cillex, it is in tablet form and says to be disinfectant and ich treatment. It contains quinine ethyl carbonate (Chininaethyl carb.) and acriflavin.

[WhiteSheep]

Just happened to read this thread.

I have no experience on fungi growing on shrimp but I'm personally against using Malachite Green and Methylene blue.

I've worked with these chemicals on bacteria. These chemicals basically alter and literally stain the body of the microorganism. I think this stuff can collect in the shrimp since they are eating microorganisms.

Also recently, there is this scare locally about malachite green in farmed fish from China and just most recently Taiwan. I'm not taking any chances. I would opt for cillex.