Dead coral banded shrimp

[dennism]

Introduced a new coral banded shrimp to the tank last week. It appeared to be ok, we left for two days had the mother in law feed the tank nothing different than normal. We came back to a dead shrimp with the bristle worms going to town on it's dead body its claws were already gone just a blob of shrimp with about 5worms eating it. I thought the shrimp were the worm eaters.
All water parameters are good.
Has anyone known of the shrimp being so delicate? I thought they are supposed to be pretty hardy. I just may have picked a sick shrimp

 

[JumboShrimp]

In my experience, they “are”fairly hardy, as you suggested. Most of the ones I own have molted and grown several times each. Assuming you didn’t run copper, or anything on the obvious no-no list, and there was no salinity shock, I’d chalk it off to just one of those things and buy another one. Tell your mother in law “Stay AWAY from the tank” (lol). Best wishes!