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[Crowned_Sock]

So what were your nitrates? Phosphates? Calcium? These parameters I have seen affect hermits the most. I personally don't like hermits, but that is just me. It could be copper, but I don't think it is. Maybe an ICP test would show some high metals maybe?

Unfortunately I do not have a phosphate and calcium test kit, but I always bring a sample of water to the store and last week they tested everything and said it was good

 

[StartingATank]

Unfortunately I do not have a phosphate and calcium test kit, but I always bring a sample of water to the store and last week they tested everything and said it was good

Just curious, as I am in this area, what LFS do you go to. I have found that there are some around here that say everything is good whenever phosphates are like .5, but I don't think that they would get it as off as, say, phosphates at 2

 

[Crowned_Sock]

Just curious, as I am in this area, what LFS do you go to. I have found that there are some around here that say everything is good whenever phosphates are like .5, but I don't think that they would get it as off as, say, phosphates at 2

I go to exotic aquatics in plano

 

[StartingATank]

I go to exotic aquatics in plano

I actually don't believe I have been to this LFS, but based off of their pictures, it looks like a pretty good LFS, so I don't think it is a parameter issue. Are there any possible predators in the tank?

 

[Crowned_Sock]

I actually don't believe I have been to this LFS, but based off of their pictures, it looks like a pretty good LFS, so I don't think it is a parameter issue. Are there any possible predators in the tank?

I don’t know what could possible hunt them? The species with dates have been purchased
3 Cerith Snails - 4/12/26

3 Nassarius Snails - 3/29/26

3 Trochus Snails - 3/29/26

2 Scarlet Reef Hermits - 3/29/26

Copepods - 3/29/26

2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

2 Clownfish - 2/14/26

1 Yellow Watchman Goby - 3/8/26

1 Royal Gramma - 3/29/26

1 Candy Cane Pistol Shrimp - 3/8/26

 

[StartingATank]

Well the pistol shrimp could hunt them, but for them to all die at the same time like that, I find it unlikely. I have seem that some pods in my aquarium do attack some of my snails, but never crustaceans. I am unsure of what could cause this rapid death

 

[higher99]

Brand new, I am buying premixed salt RODI and topping off with fresh RODI from my fish store, I will attach a picture and research an ICP test

When I first got my tiger pistol shrimp, it was a larger specimen that was sitting at the LFS for months. The owner did not even knew it existed but sold it to me anyways.

Long story short, I got it home and it instantly paired with the YWG. It either starved or something but it died about a week later. My suspicion was that my sandbad was so clean that it had no microfana to hunt or feed off of. It could also be that the shrimp was so acclimated to the tank that the shift it tank and parameters stressed it out.

Anyways if you got a smaller baby one, it probably is either hiding under the rock or digging some type of hideout.

The hermits on the other hand, probably ate each other. My hermits are always either killing something or themselves.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I have had bad luck with snails before (I know, little different than a hermit). I would get a couple from our LFS, and only one, maybe two, would be alive after a week. The ones that would be alive after a week would stick around in my tank for a couple of months.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

We are talking about 2 hermit deaths? I don’t think one need to assume there’s a water issue to lose to newly added hermits.

Perhaps the transition was too stressful.

 

[Crowned_Sock]

When I first got my tiger pistol shrimp, it was a larger specimen that was sitting at the LFS for months. The owner did not even knew it existed but sold it to me anyways.

Long story short, I got it home and it instantly paired with the YWG. It either starved or something but it died about a week later. My suspicion was that my sandbad was so clean that it had no microfana to hunt or feed off of. It could also be that the shrimp was so acclimated to the tank that the shift it tank and parameters stressed it out.

Anyways if you got a smaller baby one, it probably is either hiding under the rock or digging some type of hideout.

The hermits on the other hand, probably ate each other. My hermits are always either killing something or themselves.

It was a baby and didn’t even have a sanded because they kept it in a breeder box and fed it, but you’re probably right about it hiding