Fire shrimp dying

[Europa]

I have a fire shrimp for about one month. He was doing fine. Last night we transferred it to a new qt aquarium because we started medicating a damsel with ParaGuard in the display aquarium. We transferred it after one dose of ParaGuard. It didn’t eat much in the morning and today when I got back home it was laying on his side completely lethargic. I think it’s dying. The new aquarium didnt cycle, but i tested amônia and nitrites and were all 0. Salinity is fine, as well as Ph. Temperature is 77. Nitrates measures 20.

any thoughts on what could have gone wrong?

 

[vetteguy53081]

How did you transfer it? Even with traces of paraguard, you have to acclimate it at transfer as if you just brought it home from store

 

[Europa]

I caught it with a net and put it in the other aquarium. I made sure the water temperature in both tanks were the same, as well as salinity and ph. What else should I have done?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I caught it with a net and put it in the other aquarium. I made sure the water temperature in both tanks were the same, as well as salinity and ph. What else should I have done?

Floated and either drip acclimated or added a cup of water every 15 mins for an hour to equalize ph, salinity, etc.

 

[Europa]

Is there any way I can save it now or once this happens there is no way back?

 

[Bret Brinkmann]

If pH, temp, and salinity are the same, then the main 3 reasons to acclimate are already taken care of. They will act like this if they are molting, which could take as long as a week. DO NOT TOSS IT OUT! It will look dead but it's probably just molting. Give it time and leave it be. No touching. Sometimes they molt after a stressful event like changing tanks.

 

[WIReefer]

I prefer the drip method been doing it for quite some time now and never lost a shrimp doing it just make sure you drip acclimate shrimp longer than fish and make sure temp is good while acclimating.