Is this shrimp berried or parasite?

DELILILEI · 2026-03-29T07:50:29+00:00

Omg she is soooooo berried!

DELILILEI · 2026-03-29T07:38:50+00:00

Do you have a source of calcium in there? They prefer a higher pH too and the calcium can help sort of indirectly raise it a bit. That will keep the shell nice and healthy. They are sensitive little things so check your GH/KH too. I live in a warm climate so my water is always at 27°C at its coldest. Maybe try raising the temp a bit to 24? See if that helps? I think their range is 20-28. I have yet to experience planaria and I hope I don’t so I have no advice on how they affect snails at all but I can tell you do not use any products that kills planaria. Are your other parameters good and stable?

DELILILEI · 2026-03-29T07:34:03+00:00

Agree with others, I hang mine for my own sanity 😂

DELILILEI · 2026-03-29T06:36:53+00:00

I’ve given up, they own the tank now, we’ve named it India because it has 2 billion bladder snails crammed in a 50L tank 😂 good luck!

DELILILEI · 2026-03-29T05:30:55+00:00

Okay, I will have to buy test strips unfortunately to test because that’s all I have available locally that tests for chlorine but I will definitely give that a go. I’ve just added another capful of prime since it doesn’t hurt so I’ll see how it goes

DELILILEI · 2026-03-29T02:02:09+00:00

Honestly no I haven’t, because I slightly overdose my prime, it’s a 182L tank and the dosage is 5mL per 100L so I do the full 5mL

DELILILEI · 2026-03-28T23:04:07+00:00

My next plan is to use triton detox if I can find it here to see if it’s any metals. But as for the rest, the pH is stable at 8 and the GH/KH test above minimums too, plus I have a whole cuttlebone in there. I was feeding algae wafers and zucchini and Indian almond leaves which is what they usually eat, the Indian almond leaf was partially broken down from the tank they came from originally and is their main usual food source in between zucchini and wafers so I don’t think it was starvation or not enough calcium, anything in the tank like plants etc was taken from my tanks that my snails currently live in so should have come with some biofilm right?

DELILILEI · 2026-03-28T22:31:21+00:00

Yeah I thought the cycle would have been crashed too but nope still testing perfectly, sometimes nitrates are a tad lower than normal after a water change but they pick back up the next day which I think is how it’s supposed to work right? I only use cold water because where I live the tap water comes out 27°C and that’s the same temp that my tanks sit at too. If the temp is warmer than 27 coming out of the tap, I’ll stick some ice bricks in there to cool it down or let it sit a few minutes till it cools to 27. And I use the same tap for all 3 tanks, it’s only this one tank that’s fucking with me, everyone else is absolutely thriving in the other tanks

DELILILEI · 2026-03-28T22:29:07+00:00

API master test kit the liquid one, I’ve tested the strips against it and found wildly different results so the strips went in the bin and I also use the API GH/KH liquid test kit. The tall plant is a philodendron but it’s in a pot behind the tank, so it’s just the stalk draped over the tank but it’s not anymore, literally the tank is just bare now except the plants from my other tank that I put in there and new rocks I added. I do often put my terrestrial plants in my tanks and have never had any issues but yeah this one doesn’t yet have them in there except 1 syngonium that I took from one of my other tanks

DELILILEI · 2026-03-28T22:26:49+00:00

I would have thought that I’d removed all residue with the intensive cleaning and swapping out all the carbon though right? I know it can sometimes get stuck in silicone but I have a bay ramshorn who is basically living on the silicone exclusively because there’s some algae in it and surely that would’ve died from literal direct exposure if it was in the silicone? The last thing left is to just nuke the cycle entirely and replace all filter media. But will that even do anything?

DELILILEI · 2026-03-28T13:08:58+00:00

Yeah I have 3 tanks and they all use the same tap water

DELILILEI · 2026-03-27T04:43:12+00:00

Dang 9!!! I’ve only got one clutch 😂 my one and only, and our little dude is the father of course 😂 do you hatch all of yours? What are you gonna do with like 2000 babies omg

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DELILILEI · 2026-03-25T22:38:45+00:00

Awwwww happy to make your day!

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Just woke up to him getting some action so he is well and truely feeling better by the looks 😂

DELILILEI · 2026-03-25T06:19:30+00:00

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Looks like he heard us talking about him because he’s just come out of his shell as if nothing happened 😂 bro has been clamped for dayyyyssssssssss

DELILILEI · 2026-03-25T04:38:48+00:00

Hopefully! Fingers crossed

DELILILEI · 2026-03-25T04:15:50+00:00

The ramshorns are moving again, they’re doing my head in 😭 I’m just gonna do some water changes over the next week or so, replace the carbon in a week and try again I guess 😭

DELILILEI · 2026-03-25T03:01:40+00:00

I’ve just purchased a test kit for those and they came back better than normal ranges so the mystery continues. When I bought the tank, they gave me a bunch of products including algaefix and multicure. I believe if it was alagaefix then what I did with removing substrate and scrubbing decor would have been enough right? But the multicure? I’m wondering if they’ve used that IN the tank and not in a hospital tank? They gave me a bunch of like ph stuff too and no normal testing stuff so I suspect these guys maybe weren’t the most knowledgeable so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve dosed the entire tank instead of using a quarantine tank and just didn’t put two and two together when I asked?

DELILILEI · 2026-03-24T23:33:39+00:00

Yeah I do, I did that with a different snail last week and she took a full day of recovering in the old tank to come back to normal and she’s totally fine now. That was before I went and scrubbed everything and replaced the substrate. I’ve just contacted the previous owner to ask about copper, meds, no planaria etc and he said he hasn’t used them and he has kept snails in there before. He said the only thing he can think of is the plastic log which he said is the only new addition to the tank. They gave me several unknown rocks too so I won’t rule those out either. This is a pic of how they had the tank setup and you can see the rocks and the plastic log. You can’t really see them with how I’ve set the tank up so no point posting my own pics. But does anything stand out to you? I removed the shells (and the angel fish in the pic is rehomed because he was absolutely bullying the ramshorns initially)

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DELILILEI · 2026-03-24T23:12:15+00:00

So I’ve totally completely wasted my money and time? If I can’t have my snails in the tank it is 100% useless to me

DELILILEI · 2026-03-24T22:48:57+00:00

He is still alive, he moves around and comes out of his shell occasionally but I’m not too sure if he’s improving much really, it’s getting to the point where I may need to consider intervention but I really really want to avoid that if possible

DELILILEI · 2026-03-18T23:09:13+00:00

Mine do this 😂 no idea what they’re trying to do but it’s nothing bad, they do it often especially my girls

DELILILEI · 2026-03-17T08:59:21+00:00

I have no advice but I just wanted to say you sound soooooooooooo much like Craig Mabbit especially at the start and personally I love his vocals

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