booboo Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 I woke up to day to find my little cleaner shrimp lifless at the bottom of my tank. I tested water before going to school and it was good. I had had it for 3 days could it have starved he never ate and when i put in some cyclop ezz it went nutty for it only got a little though. I also have some button polyps althogh i think their zoos the person who sold them wasnt a genious like some of you. A nassarious 4 astreas 2 red legged hermits and one blue leg. I was still working on my cleanup crew so i bought him i had already had the 4 astrea and 3 hermits for a week til i got him. What do you think happened Ps i put in this shell that was origanlly used as a hermit crab dish for our land hermit crab but he never ate out of it so i scrubbed it soaked it in vinegar let it dry scrubed it agin soaked it again let it dry agin then put it in when i put it in though some white stuff floated to the surface could this have caused it? Link to comment
mogurnda Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 If it died that fast, I'd suspect that it may not have been acclimated long enough. They can't really starve in a few days. Link to comment
booboo Posted September 17, 2004 Author Share Posted September 17, 2004 no i acclimated it for two hours Link to comment
kd7ctv Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 mines MIA I put him in Sunday an haven't seen him since.... Go figure... Link to comment
booboo Posted September 18, 2004 Author Share Posted September 18, 2004 no it wasnt a molting i took it out it was dead with flesh in it do they lie upside down and not move while molting? Link to comment
flickj79 Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 mine got eaten by stinking peppermint shrimp i am taking them back this week and getting an emerald crab, and pistol shrimp, no more peppermints though for my cleanup Link to comment
ReeferJones Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 mine randomly died yesterday....all my params are @ 0. I don't know wtf happened. Link to comment
flickj79 Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 at least i am pretty sure the peppermints killed him water params were perfect, and teh shrimp looked fine IT WAS THE PEPPERMINTS, they are gettin cuffed and stuffed into a fish bag and going back to the lfs, and i am goin to see if they will let me feed them to a larger fish, WAIT I have oscars, anyway goodbye peppermint shrimp justice shall be served in the form of being Eaten alive by oscars Link to comment
booboo Posted September 22, 2004 Author Share Posted September 22, 2004 was he molting :*( do you think i threw him in the trash before he had a chance to finish :*( he was updide down though at the bottom of the tank Link to comment
flickj79 Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 I have never seen my shrimp molting, I just find empty exoskeletons so i don't know what it looks like when they molt Link to comment
mogurnda Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 Originally posted by booboo was he molting :*( do you think i threw him in the trash before he had a chance to finish :*( he was updide down though at the bottom of the tank No. They normally hold on with their toes when they back out of the old cuticle. Lying on the bottom isn't part of it. Link to comment
bobbyb323 Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 We put all these animals in a closed system and when some of them kill the others we are surprised? Link to comment
cybaix Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 mine finds the nice underside of a rock and hangs upsidedown when he does it. Link to comment
PufferMatt Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 thats the thing about salt water aquariums.. livestock sometimes just die with no explanation, it happens. Link to comment
flickj79 Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 the funny thing is that every time i would go to the lfs before i even thought about getting a cleaner shrimp they would have them, when i did get one it became my fav shrimp so far, and then he dies, and the fish store has not gotten one single cleaner shrimp in now for 3 freakin weeks Link to comment
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