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01/15/2008, 05:28 AM
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Brine Shrimp + Ammonia
Hi everyone,
I have a nagging question that no one seems to be able to answer so I throught that I would try my luck here. Basically I wish to know if brine shrimp retain ammonia. I had a couple of my chromis die and my royal gamma for no reason  everything was fine and the water was perfect the only thing was that I had fed them some adult brine shrimp and the water they came from wasnt great it was high in ammonia not high enough to kill the shrimp tho. Could this have been why I lost my fish? As I really have no idea its going on a week now and everything else is doing fine.
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01/15/2008, 07:33 AM
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 To Reef Central Brine shrimp are dirty critters and so while the brine shrimp themselves may not have it, the water they live in might. They have a higher tolerance for ammonia. In order to help you with the dead fish, we need more specs at the time of death. Did you measure ammonia in the tank? How high was it? Any amount of ammonia is bad and stressful to the fish. If the fish was stressed due to other factors in your tank, the ammonia may have just been the thing that finished the fish. If other critters and other fish are fine, then the fish may have been already dead even before you added the brine shrimp. Tank specs????
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01/15/2008, 12:23 PM
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brine shrimp are basically empty vessels, nothing more....they only benefit the fish or whatever is eating them, if they have been properly gutloaded or newly hatched. Was this a one time feeding thing then you noticed the fish dead or have you been feeding ungutloaded brine shrimp for quit awhile and the fish may have starved to death?
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01/16/2008, 06:25 AM
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My Tank is only small ~150L it has live rock and a skimmer and a couple of power heads. The readings of the tank were
SG 1.024 kH 10 PH between 8.1 and 8.3 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrates < 12.5 I only fed the brine shrimp once (Due to the deaths) and they were fed a power from my lfs to gut feed them. |
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01/16/2008, 06:33 AM
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oh I forgot temp its at 26 ~27C and is stable
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01/16/2008, 07:51 AM
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Is it possible that you introduced an internal parasite with the brine shrimp? I lost a clown fish due to this one time. It will be the last time I feed full grown live brine shrimp. If the water they were growing in was as nasty as you say it was I would think there's a pretty good chance that it could contain some parasites.
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