AstroCoral
Active Member
Hello all,
I purchased a white spotted anemone shrimp from a reputable livestock dealer. The acclimation was uneventful and the shrimp was acting pretty normal although was quite cautious to move about the tank. The next morning I woke up to not seeing the shrimp anywhere, I found part of its’ tail and carapace on the sand but thought it was most likely molt and gave it a few days. Well I’m coming up on a week since I’ve seen this shrimp so I’m likely thinking that piece of tail I fished out of the tank last week was not the shrimp molt and was a piece of the actual shrimp (also remembering that the shrimp “molt” had an extremely bad smell to it when I pulled it from the tank, unfortunately I didn’t check if it was hollow or not). My livestock only consists of a trimma goby (nano-type), a cerith snail, and a columbellid snail. Along with a frogspawn, hammer, and Duncan coral. Does anyone know if this shrimp could be targeted by any of this livestock as I certainly didn’t think any of these creatures were capable of killing a shrimp. I’m just trying to figure out how this shrimp died and if I should get another one or not. My leading theories:
1) The shrimp was killed by something in the tank as the shrimp tail was the only thing left.
2) The shrimp died and was then consumed by other tank members.
3) The shrimp was pulled into a powerhead, my powerhead runs extremely slow and is well covered so I’m finding this theory hard to believe.
I purchased a white spotted anemone shrimp from a reputable livestock dealer. The acclimation was uneventful and the shrimp was acting pretty normal although was quite cautious to move about the tank. The next morning I woke up to not seeing the shrimp anywhere, I found part of its’ tail and carapace on the sand but thought it was most likely molt and gave it a few days. Well I’m coming up on a week since I’ve seen this shrimp so I’m likely thinking that piece of tail I fished out of the tank last week was not the shrimp molt and was a piece of the actual shrimp (also remembering that the shrimp “molt” had an extremely bad smell to it when I pulled it from the tank, unfortunately I didn’t check if it was hollow or not). My livestock only consists of a trimma goby (nano-type), a cerith snail, and a columbellid snail. Along with a frogspawn, hammer, and Duncan coral. Does anyone know if this shrimp could be targeted by any of this livestock as I certainly didn’t think any of these creatures were capable of killing a shrimp. I’m just trying to figure out how this shrimp died and if I should get another one or not. My leading theories:
1) The shrimp was killed by something in the tank as the shrimp tail was the only thing left.
2) The shrimp died and was then consumed by other tank members.
3) The shrimp was pulled into a powerhead, my powerhead runs extremely slow and is well covered so I’m finding this theory hard to believe.
