lighting13 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Hello . I recently bought 20 skittles rcs from shrimprack aka sf aquatic but from amazon . I recently lost like 5 in less than a week and one is now having green fungus and I don't know how to cure this and if I can do a whole tank cure since I'm not sure how many are infected . The only person who may know anything seems to be Rachel o leary. I have plants and don't want to kill them . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Im sorry you are losing your shrimp. That looks to be ellobiopsidae. I had a few shrimp come in with that several years ago. I tried several methods but had no success in curing them. Here is an article giving you some information on this. https://aquariumbreeder.com/understanding-dwarf-shrimp-diseases-and-parasites/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 These a couples of treatment for ellobiopsidae one malachite green active ingredient in ick X or you can use a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lighting13 Posted February 10 Author Share Posted February 10 I found something at my work which is a pets store and we have pimafix , the google search says it cures fungal and since it's green fungus will this help cure it if ita not to late and or will it also help prevent the spread . I'm scared to try h202 if I tried other safe method first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creedmoor Aquatics Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 I have never had to deal with the green shrimp fungus, but I would be highly skeptical of using Pimafix. Pimafix is just Bay Tree Oil. It can be used to treat *some* fungal and bacterial infections, but API makes no effort to identify which infections Pimafix is effective against. It is also considered a 'weak' antifungal. Anecdotally, I have seen many online posts indicating Pimafix had no effect on the green shrimp fungus. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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