I have made a 95% water change today to get rid of the JBL Furanol2 after 4 days of medical treatment. The water has been prepared with JBL Aqua Dur to get an optimal hardness and pH over 7,5. I have count 8 shrimps left (out of 14) ; two females are berried and none was looking ill like on my former photos. I turned the UV sterilizer on again. If you are interested, check my water parameter table.
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I am intersted in hearing if your treatment has helped your C. spinata colony. I also have this shrimp and have had some losses. While I have not been able to save any shrimp, i have been able to help some shrimp recover partially by placing them in a net breeder encloser and placing this close to the out flow of a small power head with a venturi to incorporate air into the flow. The shrimp stay alive in this set up but, so far, have not recovered. I am hoping that your treatment might be the next step.
Hi Bill,
it’s to early to resume: so far I have no more shrimps dying bute since they are shy and always hide, I cannot recommend 100% doing alike. My impression is,that the UV-sterilizer works well for wildcaught Sulawesi. I will check in tweo weeks if the berried females are still alive and post the result here. Thanks for your experiences – stay tuned!
Imke
Just wanted to follow up and see if your treatment was successful. I believe that I am experiencing losses because of a pathogen – just one or two shrimp every couple of days. The affected animals appear to have discolorations present on the shells noticeable before they die.
Bill
Hi Bill,
I had another two shrimps dying and I will check on the next weekend about the rest. I am almost convinced that this is some baterical disease causing molting problems. I agree with you that it is pathogen.
Imke
Hi Imke – I am sorry to hear that you have more losses – unfortunately I am having the same problem. I found out that the University of Arizona – about 600km from me – has a shrimp pathology lab for the aquaculture industry. I am going to try to contact them to see if they would be willing to look at some of these shrimp and possibly make some suggestions. I will let you know if I recieve any useful information
here is the link http://ag.arizona.edu/impacts/2002/4_6.html
Bill
Sulawesi shrimps are not easy at all and if private buyers get heighly infected and stressed wildcaught shrimps, no wonder they die… Contacting the Arizona University is quiet a very good idea! I hope they examine your shrimps for free or very low charge. Keep me updated, please! I am afraid I have only one berried but ill Goldflake left
Hi Imke,
I have contacted the Shrimp patology lab and they are going to send me instructions to preserve any shrimp that I can find newly deceased. They may not be able to work with my frozen shrimp. I will keep you updated.
I would also like to ask you for some help. You are a moderator on the shrimp now forum. I have not been able to log in since I mistakenly tried to post the copy righted chemistry pape on lake Matano. Have I been banned?