So, this morning, I had just made myself a nice hot cup of coffee. I walked past my one remaining tank, and I noticed one of my male Sinapore shrimp was doing back-flips into one of the corners of the tank (no, that's not funny). I said to myself, "What the ***?" and turned on the light. To my horror, I found 2 dead Sinapore shrimp, 6 dead snowball shrimp, 4 dying Sinapore shrimp, 8 Singapore attempting to leave the tank, 1 Amano shrimp attempting to hike back to Japan, a dying dwarf crayfish, and 14 fish gulping at the water surface. Luckily, I had bought a 10 gallon tank to repair a MetaFrame. I filled it with water, and while it was filling, I started scooping out the alive and dying. A friend of mine gave me some cycled filter media.

So, I spent all flippin' day long cleaning out the tank, cleaning the filter (Eheim 2213), setting up an egg tumbler (thanks mbovinet) for the 2 batches of shrimp eggs I stripped from 2 snowball shrimp females, setting up a 10 gallon, replanting my 30 gallon long, and all sorts of fun stuff. I feel like I was hit by a bus! This post probably reads weird, but I am dead tired, and I am off to my coffin now.

Oh sheep that sucks Know how you feel, went through a bad time with one of me tanks not long back Do you know what caused the problem ?

Yikes...nice start to the day, huh?

Everything (other than the losses & the surprise) turn out ok?

So far, so good (knock on wood). Everyone that's still alive are still in the 10 gallon--14 fish, 12 Singapore shrimp, 2 dwarf crays, and 30+ snowball shrimp. I know, I know, overstocked, but it was an emergency.

As far, as I can tell, the "occurence" was caused by a nitrate spike caused by a clogged filter that decided to de-clog itslef overnight.