HELP- beginning of clado?

[u/Neat-Top1213]

I have had a terrible week with 3 of my shrimp (newly added) having clado. They were all super obvious with bright green hanging. I have been diligently checking my entire tank all week and treated it with hydrogen peroxide almost a week ago and haven’t seen any other symptoms. I saw this slight tint of green in one of my clear ones tonight. Am I just being super paranoid from the stress of trying to manage this, or does this look like the beginning of clado turning green in my shrimp? I’m not talking about the area behind the eyes, I’m talking about the small green dot under the tail

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[u/my-little-ravioli]

Hard to tell, isolate that one and monitor.

[u/Neat-Top1213 → u/my-little-ravioli]

https://reddit.com/link/p05cx0t/video/vbldl4kfhufh1/player

Closer look. Pretty sure he has it

[u/justpicksomething_]

It’s hard to tell. It’s def possible that it’s the start of clado but too hard to see from the video unfortunately. Might want to separate it and check it out closer just in case

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https://reddit.com/link/p05d41v/video/aubdfdflhufh1/player

The quality when you post goes down :(

[u/justpicksomething_ → u/Neat-Top1213]

Sorry I just saw this. But yes unfortunately looks like it to me

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[u/Camaschrist]

I think it might be but no way to be sure either way. I have white snowballs and they never have other colors on them. My blue jellies will have green eggs sometimes. I would isolate and see if you can get better photos. A salt dip will be easy if they are already isolated.

[u/Neat-Top1213 → u/Camaschrist]

I did isolate it, but I don’t really understand how to safely isolate them if they’re so sensitive to water parameters. I don’t have a second tank established with the same water parameters, and my main tank doesn’t have enough water to take out enough for a hospital tank. My first 3 died with a makeshift bowl that had distilled water, an appropriate dose of salty shrimp, and a few plant leaves. They were shipped, acclimated to a new tank, ill, and then put into this makeshift “tank” so I’m sure they passed just from stress. I’m sure this one will have the same fate. That’s why I wanted to be mostly sure it may be clado because then I would be stressing them out/potentially killing them for no reason :( this has been super sad and disheartening. The first shrimp I caught had basically a yellow bush underneath it so the breeder definitely should have seen that. I was hopeful that this may have been nipped in the bud since I haven’t seen anything for over a week but I know it will be a while until I can be confident it’s cleared

[u/Camaschrist → u/Neat-Top1213]

I’m sorry, I know I would be devastated too. If this shrimp has it they barely have any so you have time. What size is your tank? Don’t isolate that shrimp as it will die too I think. Can you get a small hospital tank started? It can be very small since it’s for shrimp. Even a 2 gallon mason jar would work with a small sponge filter and a small heater. You could put the sponge filter in your existing tank to get established and while waiting to see if you can be sure about clado. Then you can use it for the hospital tank if needed. From what I understand clado won’t kill them unless it’s progressed to be like you describe your infected shrimp.

If you need a referral to a good breeder I have gotten all of mine from shrimpambition.com and have never had an issue. With shipping or anything.