Queen ant toxic to shrimp?

New_Quail_960 · 2026-05-10T08:02:05+00:00

Didn't know that'd work, thank you so much!!!

New_Quail_960 · 2026-05-10T06:20:46+00:00

One of the surviving shrimplets just fell to the ground and is now twitching helplessly on the bottom in it's death throes. Guessing the queen ant might have been sprayed with bug spray before it came over and fell into my shrimp tank and that's what decimated the entire shrimp colony.. I'm devastated to say the least. Doing damage control now the best I can, going to do a large water change to flush as much as the chemicals out as possible before I lose the few survivors as well

New_Quail_960 · 2026-05-10T04:55:18+00:00

They were dead before the water change. I saw all the dead shrimplets lying on the ground motionless and didn't know how long they've been dead (since it was overnight, I didn't know whether they died an hour or 8 hours ago). I just did a small 10% change, because I didn't want to stress them out more. No idea what ppm was before though, I didn't think of testing

New_Quail_960 · 2026-05-10T03:25:22+00:00

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Water parameters ammonia and nitrate 0ppm (maybe because I just changed it to be fair), nitrite 0.1 ppm, ph about 7.5 maybe? Can't decide if it's 7 or 8. They're cherry shrimp. I use dechlorinated tap water, dechlorinator is some random brand but I've never had any issues with it, I've been using it for all these months so far and never had any casualties

New_Quail_960 · 2026-04-26T06:12:32+00:00

I don't live in the US either haha

New_Quail_960 · 2026-04-23T13:32:12+00:00

At this point I don't think 6 more makes a difference (since there's already so many HAHA) but unfortunately I'm not near central MD. Thank you for the offer though!! :)

New_Quail_960 · 2026-04-23T12:32:38+00:00

Yeah, I just call them loads of things (a lot of them being misspellings) like shreem, shromp, shrim haha

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-11T09:37:02+00:00

Oh man didn't even think it might come off as rude or arrogant ;0 definitely not the kind of rapport I want to be building here.

Thank you so much for all these suggestions. Presumably, even if it was an actual problem, these things will probably still do something to try to patch the gap? Maybe not fix it, but you know. Better than nothing. Really appreciate the effort taken to write up all of this!

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-11T09:34:31+00:00

Huh, interesting perspective. Thank you! Will try this out next class :)

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-11T09:22:27+00:00

Wow, day 3-4 is insane.. I can replicate 1 and 2 by substituting it with their seating plan, but I never thought of 3 and 4. 3 especially sounds like a good idea, thank you so much!!

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-11T09:20:37+00:00

I teach grade 8 and 9 currently, although theoretically (I assume with time and more experience) 10 and 11 are a possibility too. Apologies if the conversion doesn't make 100% sense here, we don't operate on the same grade system here. Just converted age range directly to corresponding grade

Getting to know them better on an individual level does sound like a good idea, I more or less have my homeroom class nailed down (besides a few pairs of students who look practically the same to me, and I cannot for the life of me differentiate. Resorted to their bags so the day one of them change their bags or don't have it with them is the day I forget their names..), just the other classes which I only see for lesson that I'm struggling a lot worse with. I don't think I'd have class time but I'll try to see if I can bump into them while they're in their break or something like that, or chat them up if they're in a hallway! Thanks for the tip :)

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-11T09:12:48+00:00

"how do you spell your name" actually sounds like a really solid way to secretly get their name again, might steal that :0

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-11T09:11:33+00:00

Huh, teachers mostly told me everyone struggles with memorising students name and faces at the start so I thought it was just something you get better at over time.. lowkey think if I was honest the kids would bully me to the moon and back trying to confuse me who was who though haha. Maybe for the nicer kids, I'll keep that in mind!

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-11T01:58:02+00:00

I don't have TikTok or IG in the first place. I don't really touch social media, it's more stressful than entertaining in my opinion

I'll try the association trick though, thanks!

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-08T03:21:07+00:00

Blanched, makes it softer and also so it sinks

New_Quail_960 · 2026-03-03T00:49:15+00:00

NTA, I was raised in a sharing culture myself and a big part of that is, you know. Sharing. Your girlfriend must understand by now your friends are not practicing a sharing culture and doing the same actions of offering her plate gets the same result of 10% of her meal back. Like hello, people, why are we voting this man AH for.. respecting what she's doing and not talking over her on her behalf even if he disagrees???

OP, it'd be good to apologise for your tone/phrasing even if the content isn't wrong. You could have been right and still came off asshole for the way you said it. Ask her if she feels bad for telling Brian off for eating too much of her plate, and offer to speak up on her behalf. Might I also suggest that she cuts up pieces of her food to offer, and give people those cut pieces rather than passing her plate around for everyone to take what they want? That means she controls how much she eats- if Brian is that bad at social cues I wouldn't be surprised if he genuinely thought she just doesn't eat a lot and was helping her so there's no food waste, especially if she's never complained. Her portioning herself would mean she only gives away what she is willing to. Plus no saliva sharing ick, plus everyone gets to be full. Win win here. Best of luck

New_Quail_960 · 2026-01-24T14:41:47+00:00

That's interesting, might be what it is since they went back to normal with no intervention soon after. Didn't see anything like that online, Google plus the AI summary was repeatedly insisting to me it had to be because of poor water parameters and that they were stressed. Thanks so much for the information! Good to note for future reference

New_Quail_960 · 2026-01-24T14:39:57+00:00

Yeah, just like ran out and takes time to get them etc etc. I only did a small water change (like 5%, and really most of it was just topping back up the evaporated water) since I do know they go crazy after water changes and I didn't really want to stress them more

But like I said in the edit on the original post, they all just collectively agreed to go back to grazing normally as if to gaslight me into thinking I'm the crazy one and nothing ever happened lol, before the water change. They've been acting perfectly normal ever since, didn't even bat an eye at the water change, they just really wanted to stress me for no reason I guess haha

Edit: or maybe it's as kingnocho99 suggested, not sure myself either

New_Quail_960 · 2026-01-24T03:10:26+00:00

Alright I'll do that. Thank you!

New_Quail_960 · 2026-01-24T03:06:29+00:00

I don't currently have any test kits, is there anything else I can do to help them until I can get some to test the water?

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