Deaths in the past few days. Please help ASAP

**Kazuya** · 1st Feb 2012, 11:27 AM

Tank parameters are
ph 6
GH 4
KH 0-1
TDS 165
Temp 21C
Nitrate 0

I've lost so far 2 wine red, a KK and now a panda.
I did a water change when the first one died.
Have not done anything different since then.

Any ideas?
Should I move them to my other tank which has no deaths and has shrimplets.

**imke_j** · 1st Feb 2012, 11:50 AM

Sorry to hear about your losses - how old is your tank and what soil do you use? The water parameter look normal for TB shrimp, although some keep them harder. Have you changed anything recently

**Kazuya** · 1st Feb 2012, 02:27 PM

Tanks about 3 months old now. With and aged filter.
The only thing I added new was a new purigen bag to the filter. But the deaths were happening before I did this.
Soil is Africana and Akadama

**ChiefWalksInSlips** · 1st Feb 2012, 02:46 PM

Not good, not good at all. I'm sorry to hear this and wish I had an answer for ya.

**imke_j** · 1st Feb 2012, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Kazuya

Soil is Africana and Akadama

Reading from here, it is like a guessing game.... However, my suspicion is that you have had an unwanted pH swing. Maybe raising the GH is a good idea. Any other opinions to help our friend? Seniors please advise!

**Dincho** · 2nd Feb 2012, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by Kazuya

I did a water change when the first one died.

Before or after it died? Have any new shrimp been added?

**bikersoy** · 2nd Feb 2012, 11:48 AM

Bad news.
I'm sorry your losses, the parameters are not bad.
In this tank is that you entered your last purchase

**Navanod** · 2nd Feb 2012, 01:02 PM

Those are very precious shrimps to lose. I lost afew awhile ago due to carelessness and I can feel your pain.

What is the volume of the tank? How are the rest reacting to food?
I hope we can slowly narrow the issue to the root cause

**Kazuya** · 2nd Feb 2012, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Dincho

Before or after it died? Have any new shrimp been added?

After and I did add a few new ones.

Bikersroy thanks. It sucks. Yes these were from my last purchase.

Navanod, its 60L

**Navanod** · 3rd Feb 2012, 12:31 AM

60L sounds decent enough. Looks like its a mystery at this point. Are the ones that died the new shrimps you had added lately?

Might be good to run a check on your nitrite and ammonia if you can, especially if the shrimps are moving slowly and not reacting to food.

Lastly, I can only suggest doing what I do when in doubt. Do a 20% waterchange and add a little bit of Seachem prime (it locks up ammonia) and toss in a bag of activated charcoal/carbon to soak up any toxins in the water.

Good luck my friend