katyaq
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I hope someone can actually help this time because I posted about this before but no one answered and I have not found any posts or info about this happening before
I'm raising 5 larvae about a month old, I was baby sitting an entire clutch for a friend who left me with 5 as a thank you. I have used all the same tools and foods as I did with hers so I don;t think this is from any contaminated products. I fed the babies last night with bbs, this morning I removed the few dead shrimp and did a water change. It was aged water and I don';t use any chemicals to treat it. Within a couple of hours one of the babies had curled gills. I hatched more shrimp and introduced them to the container. I checked on them a couple of hours later and 2 of the babies were swimming erratically in circles. I removed all the shrimp from the water as I thought maybe they had eaten too much and went out for errands. When I came back all 5 of them had curled tails and gills, 2 were upside down and not moving much. I had no more aged water so I grabbed some from my adult tank and melted some ice cubes to make it cooler than the water hteyre in now. I put their container in the new water so the temperature was the same and then let them in. They look like Gs right now, tail curled competely in and their gills are curled so tight they look like they've been chopped in half. This is the second time this happens, exactly in the same way except last time I had a clutch of 50 babies that were 2 months old. What could cause this? Please help
I'm raising 5 larvae about a month old, I was baby sitting an entire clutch for a friend who left me with 5 as a thank you. I have used all the same tools and foods as I did with hers so I don;t think this is from any contaminated products. I fed the babies last night with bbs, this morning I removed the few dead shrimp and did a water change. It was aged water and I don';t use any chemicals to treat it. Within a couple of hours one of the babies had curled gills. I hatched more shrimp and introduced them to the container. I checked on them a couple of hours later and 2 of the babies were swimming erratically in circles. I removed all the shrimp from the water as I thought maybe they had eaten too much and went out for errands. When I came back all 5 of them had curled tails and gills, 2 were upside down and not moving much. I had no more aged water so I grabbed some from my adult tank and melted some ice cubes to make it cooler than the water hteyre in now. I put their container in the new water so the temperature was the same and then let them in. They look like Gs right now, tail curled competely in and their gills are curled so tight they look like they've been chopped in half. This is the second time this happens, exactly in the same way except last time I had a clutch of 50 babies that were 2 months old. What could cause this? Please help