How to introduce shrimp into tank?

[Wen]

Hi All,

What is the correct procedure to introduce new shrimp to established tank? They keep dying. One died within 2 hours. Help....

[19percula]

bro can share wif us wat ls are there in yr tank?

[Wen]

Hi,

I've 2 clown and 2 green chromis only and about 25kg of LR.

[19percula]

care to share wat shrimps are they?

[Wen]

Hi,

They r fire shrimp and cleaner shrimp. cleaner shrimp died within 2 hours.

[19percula]

from the ls u stated i don think its the fishes which kill yr shrimps

btw when yr cleaner died the fishes never die rite?

[timzhiquan]

should be due to the difference of specific gravity between the water in your tank and in the bag.

[Kalib]

What are your acclimatization procedures? Maybe their wrong thats why.

Anyway, here's mine. So far so good.

1. Float the bag in your tank for 10mins-15mins.

2. Open the bag and add some tank water to the LFS water.Amount i add would usually be around 5%-10% of the volume of LFS water. Leave for 15mins.

3. Repeat step 2. until you fill up the LFS bag and leave for 15mins.Sometimes, if i place the livestock in another container i just repeat step 2 for about 4-5times.

4. Recommended to pour 40%-50% of the water in the bag/container out and repeat step 3. especially if the livestock is known to be sensitive.

5. Net the livestock out and introduce into the tank. Avoid pouring the water in incase the LFS water contains any harmful parasites or bacteria.

[Vincenttan]

What i do is this way:

1) let the bag float in your tank for 1 hour

2) pour away 20% of your bag water away and fill back 20% with your tank water and let it stable for 20 mins.

3) repeat this step 2 two more times.

4) use a net, take the CF out and let it into my fish hatchery

plastic tank ( it is place near to the water surface, those small plastic type).

5) my CF started to feed after around 4 hour when i put some mysis shrimp into the hatchery tank.

6) I release it to the tank after 1 days.

[odi]

Suggest u check your water parameters. Never had any problems with my shrimps. BTW, what's CF?

[sunnymau]

i learnt this from ML boss Hendry:

1) let the bag float in your tank for 30min-1hour

2) open up the bag and pour into a container

3) use a air tube to siphon the water from the tank

4) control the flow rate of one drop per second

5) wait untill the water level is 200% of the original

6) transfer ur LS with a net, prevent water in the container to get into the main tank

[blacknails]

Chances are that it's your water parameters... Check your nitrates and all..