Shrimp eating my snails?

[robram27]

I have a 12g cube up for over a month and last week I added mu cleanup crew to the tank

 

6 Astraea Snails

1 Scarlet

1 Sally light foot

 

Took the sally back in 3 days after his aggressive nature to my other inhabits, LFS told me he would do fine with snails and shrimp, he will do fine alright, eating them. Anyway I picked up

 

2 Cerith Snails

2 Dwarf Blue leg hermits

4 Nassarius Snails

and a small peppermint shrimp hoping for a little Aiptasia control.

 

Today I find two of my Astraea snails dead and the peppermint and others going to town on him, Are the peppermints or anything that I added killing my snails? I am very cautious about my water parameters, I still check them daily and all is fine. Just curious about the death of my snails and why everyone seems to be eating on him, do I need to feed them anything? Or is everybody just having a free meal on the house due to some un-timely death?

 

thanks in advance.

[gabbeyshell]

by chance did you acclimate these lil guys???? if so how long for the shrimp????

[robram27]

Yes, two hours for the snails and about five hours for both shrimp. All snails have lasted well over a week or so in the tank, it is just when I added the crabs and pepper shrimp did they die, and the bio-load was not that hight, there was a very small (0.25 ppm) spike in ammonia but that went away in a day and everything zeroed out, Nitrates at about 10-15 at the max, I do water changes once a week after the first algae bloom and take was finished cycling.

[gabbeyshell]

the only other thing i can think of is they don't like changes to spg of salt water

[onthefly]

Try feeding him!

 

When shrimp get hungry, they'll go after anything......

 

Try dropping in a few flakes and see if he gobbles'em up.