Skunk cleaner shrimp vanishes

[Tapio]

Introduced a cleaner shrimp, not even a very small one and it seems gone. I wonder if my resident Emerald crab might have done him in? 130 gal reef.

 

[Reduck]

Maybe molting. They hide for a few days before and after.

 

[nport19]

I would say he's hiding or something. My new shrimp did that for a while until the fish stop picking on him.

 

[Tapio]

It probably molted since I saw one shrimp antennae a couple of days after I put him in the tank. He has now reappeared, unfortunately in a cave facing the back of the aquarium. Only the front side is fed so hopefully he will change to a front side cave.