Cleaner shrimp AWOL/ UA

[Gort]

After less than a week in-tank the shrimp is nowhere to be found. No shell or antennae visible. It's a Solana 34; the scape rock is hollow and I can see inside the cavern - so not many places he could be. My fish are not predators - hmmm

 

[lmannan]

Not sure what happen, but I have had this issue also. I have decided on one of them it was because I did not aclimiate as slow as i should have, but the others I think were just too stressed from the ship. Although both died I think they were missing because of my other fire shirmp ate them after they died. I finally got some cleaner shrimp that were aclimated properly and have been thriving every since.

 

[dtd87]

My cleaner would dissappear for a day or two.. but reappear I don't know if this will be the case for you. Have you checked behind your solana in the chambers? (not very familiar with that system though)

 

[Gort]

My cleaner would dissappear for a day or two.. but reappear I don't know if this will be the case for you. Have you checked behind your solana in the chambers? (not very familiar with that system though)

I'll check back there but not sure how it would get in. If it died would a snail or hermit crab eat the entire thing shell and all?

 

[mcoomer]

I put one in the tank a couple months ago and didn't seem him for two weeks. One night after the metal halides went out I saw the very end tip of an antenna and a few weeks after that it started popping out in the evening. During the day it's out of sight.

Mike

 

[Gort]

... a few weeks after that it started popping out in the evening. During the day it's out of sight. Mike

Would that it were so - keeping my fingers crossed but feeling pessimistic all the same.

 

[Chichas01]

any anemone's in your tank?

 

[Gort]

No anemone - I had a full spectrum water test at BRA today. Calcium and Alk were a little low plus a little nitrate. They also mentioned that salinity and temp fluctuations - which i had this week - are tough on invertebrates. It's been a rough week for tank critters - I woke this morning to find the black ocellaris dying. He had been in-tank for just a week.