ghostly shrimp
I woke up this morning and one of my peppermint shrimp had turned white. He seems to be acting ok, but I can't find any explanation online for why it lost its color. It's weird.
I hope she's ok...
edit:
I just heard back from someone who had the same thing happen:
"Hi! I'm glad I'm able to help someone although it was not a good outcome sad.gif It eventually died. I knew it wasn't a molt and it stayed underneath the rocks and when it didn't come out for food then I knew something was wrong! And it was only a matter of days from when I posted that. All my params were good and nothing else was going on with the tank so I think it was just it's time. It wasn't very old either. I didn't have any idea on what to do to help it. Especially since, at that time, nobody was giving me any clues to what was going on.
Sorry for the doom and gloom. Hope your guy makes it. At least they are fairly inexpensive...."
I'm kind of sad. Mine were full grown when i got them, so they might be old. I was telling Jay a couple of weeks ago that I was going to replace them with a less annoying species (one that doesn't snack on corals) if they ever got around to dying. Now I feel guilty...
I hope she's ok...
edit:
I just heard back from someone who had the same thing happen:
"Hi! I'm glad I'm able to help someone although it was not a good outcome sad.gif It eventually died. I knew it wasn't a molt and it stayed underneath the rocks and when it didn't come out for food then I knew something was wrong! And it was only a matter of days from when I posted that. All my params were good and nothing else was going on with the tank so I think it was just it's time. It wasn't very old either. I didn't have any idea on what to do to help it. Especially since, at that time, nobody was giving me any clues to what was going on.
Sorry for the doom and gloom. Hope your guy makes it. At least they are fairly inexpensive...."
I'm kind of sad. Mine were full grown when i got them, so they might be old. I was telling Jay a couple of weeks ago that I was going to replace them with a less annoying species (one that doesn't snack on corals) if they ever got around to dying. Now I feel guilty...