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Shrimp Molt... Shrimp Death


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I woke up yesterday morning to my first shrimp molt. However later that afternoon, a shrimp died. This obviously could be a random shrimo death. However, I wanna make sure it doesnt have anything to do with the molt, is my gh too low?

Water Parameters goes as follows:

Amonia 0.25ppm, I did a waterchange to remove this amonia and i think it was caused from the dead body being in the aquarium for a few hours.

Nitrites: 0ppm

Nitrates: 25ppm

Gh: 75ppm

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It is on the lower end but still ok in my opinion.  I found with new shrimp some adjust and some do not make it. This is not entirely bad as the ones that do make it will reproduce  babies that also do fine in your water. As long as some/most are molting and reforming their shell fine as a rule for mine I leave it be. Adjusting to accommodate the weaker ones I always feared would breed a weaker total population.  Hope that helps. 

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It happens as @Guppysnail said. The main concern when it happens often and you start to notice group die offs rather than the one offs. I would bump your GH and test your source water to see if you need to regularly buffer GH with water changes. If you don't, then just continue on and make sure to give the Neo's quality foods so that the rest of the population can start to colonize and breed.

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