Where's my cleaner?

[UnderwaterWorld]

So around Friday I noticed that my cleaner shrimp was no where to be found :shock: I know that they molt, but I still don't see him anywhere and before he would always be easy to find.


Help? :)

 

[bobby]

What else is in the tank? Maybe something ate it. Sorry I don't know what their preditors are, but someone will. He could be hidding in your tank. How big is your tank?

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

It's 12 gallon but it has a ton of rock and small places to hide

I had an anenome, but it just perished, I got it for free so don't lecture me about getting one too early

and I have a brittle starfish
2 percula clowns
and a mix of hermits and snails

 

[yote]

If your shrimp died,then your clean up probably did its job and ate it.
A brittle star will make short work of any thing that dies in your tank.

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

damn it

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

but how long does molting usually take?

 

[bobby]

I dont think anyones here to lecture, but more like warn or try to save you the headace, although sometimes it seems like a lecture. Sorry about your nem, and shimp if he got ate. I hope you find him.

 

[bobby]

I dont know I just see the shell every now and then.

 

[yote]

Molting will usually take place over night.
Then the shrimp would stay back in the rock for MAYBE 24 hours,then be back out the next night.

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

i hope so too
I 2 in a row...ugh

all from letting the salinity go so high and then dropping it to normal so quick!

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

Molting will usually take place over night.
Then the shrimp would stay back in the rock for MAYBE 24 hours,then be back out the next night.

well he's a goner then

I guess I'll have to replace him

how long do they usually live with good water

 

[yote]

I dont think anyones here to lecture, but more like warn or try to save you the headace, although sometimes it seems like a lecture. Sorry about your nem, and shimp if he got ate. I hope you find him.

Bobbys right.We dont try to lecture,just save you head aches and money.

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

Bobbys right.We dont try to lecture,just save you head aches and money.

yea i know thanks

I just said that because you guys had told me to wait for an anenome but the lfs guy gave it to me when i bought the clowns so I took it...

my hermits wouldn't have done anything to the shrimp right?

 

[yote]

well he's a goner then

I guess I'll have to replace him

how long do they usually live with good water

Dont know.But I'd guess at least a couple of years.

 

[yote]

Just eat the corpse.

 

[Bifferwine]

Shrimp are very sensitive to water parameters. Before you replace it, make sure you can keep your tank stable for another month. I don't think a tank being a few weeks old is long enough to support a shrimp.

 

[UnderwaterWorld]

alrighty I'll be waiting then