White Spots on Shrimp

jboi · 06/11/2020, 10:06 PM

My 40 gallon breeder tank is now 6 months old. Around the very beginning of March I suffered a major ich outbreak. I made the tank fallow for 7 weeks and keeping only my invertebrates in main tank. I loss all but 2 fish in quarantine, only a yellow tang and a damselfish survived. After quarantine during the last week of April/first week of May, I put fish back into main tank.

This week I noticed white spots on the cleaner shrimp. No spots on the fish. After a couple of days they disappeared off the cleaner shrimp. However., this evening I noticed white spots on the peppermint shrimp. Still no white spots on fish.

Do I need to worry now that ich has reared it's ugly head again?

Jeff

Maxxumless · 06/19/2020, 01:00 AM

It's likely sand. Ich usually doesn't affect shrimp and it goes through a life cycle so it wouldn't just appear then go away in a manner of hours.

06/11/2020, 10:06 PM	#1
jboi Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 30	White Spots on Shrimp My 40 gallon breeder tank is now 6 months old. Around the very beginning of March I suffered a major ich outbreak. I made the tank fallow for 7 weeks and keeping only my invertebrates in main tank. I loss all but 2 fish in quarantine, only a yellow tang and a damselfish survived. After quarantine during the last week of April/first week of May, I put fish back into main tank. This week I noticed white spots on the cleaner shrimp. No spots on the fish. After a couple of days they disappeared off the cleaner shrimp. However., this evening I noticed white spots on the peppermint shrimp. Still no white spots on fish. Do I need to worry now that ich has reared it's ugly head again? Jeff

06/19/2020, 01:00 AM	#2
Maxxumless To the Max... Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,364	It's likely sand. Ich usually doesn't affect shrimp and it goes through a life cycle so it wouldn't just appear then go away in a manner of hours.