lol damn. Thats the first "critter" I've lost. bu as you said it happens. main thing is I'm glad everything is stable. I am hoping to add either a watchman or a tailspot blenny this weekend! I'm so excited haha. (like a kid at christmas) I'll be sure to take extra care in my acclimatising.

Make sure you keep an eye on everything else and double-check your parameter to make sure there isn't a larger issue that you're missing. Other than that, take it slow.

I vote tailspot. Awesome fish and they don't spit sand everywhere.

yes I will monitor daily for a few, just to be certain, everything is fine at the moment, but I'm also doing a 1-20 % water change tomorrow, just to get any "gunk" the snail may have left behind,. Caution is key :P
thanks for the info, I think a tailspot would go nicely with my ocellaris, also do you happen to know if its common for ocellaris and skunk cleaner shrimp to pair up? as in become buddies? they are always together tanking care of one another. its quite the thing.

Sorry, can't help you with the shrimp. My fish tend to see shrimp less as buddies, more as delicious.

lol "more as delicious" haha. that rich. well thanks again

Skunk cleaners are pretty much buddies of lots of aquarium fish. Mine will clean and hang on upside-down on my foxface and ride around for a bit sometimes.

That's so weird iv never been told that my snails have always got the same treatment as fish and coral only things I drip are certain inverts like shrimp and urchins Glad iv never lost anything

if you took your time dripping it in, then there's really not much you can do.
if you rushed him in there, he could be in trouble.

Its funny, I always used to think you could jus toss snails in a new tank, but O lost a lot of money on snails this way.