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Hi new to the forums, I recently added two sexy shrimp to my 10 gallon reef tank, I acclimated them for 20 minutes. When they were added in they swam to the bottom and hid in my rock work. Its been three days and I haven't seen one, what are the chances they died in my rock work and how badly would this pollute the tank since im not going remove my rocks ? My tank is 1 year old, it as 2 ocellaris clowns and 1 Court Jester goby. As for other inverts a Turbo, Nassarius, Cerith and a Nerite. I have never had anything die in my tank yet so this a first for me and not to sure If I should just continue weekly water change + just daily check ammonia just in case, just checked my ammonia and its at 0.
 

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They can become meals for nearly any fish if they are small enough. Did you have an anemone to host them?
 
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They can become meals for nearly any fish if they are small enough. Did you have an anemone to host them?
I have no anemones just some soft corals currently. I read that Clowns can attack them when I did add them my clowns saw them but didn't do anything unless at night they did something.
 

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I added some in my nano. They all got eaten Im pretty sure. They started disappearing. Never saw a nitrite/ammonia spike. Pretty sure my hermits ate them before they could do anything
 

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