Lost A Cleaner Shrimp
 

Yesterday one of my cleaner shrimp wasn't acting like him/herself (kinda tucked away and not doing much) I didn't think much of it, but this morning I found the little thing upsidedown and in the sand. I took a look at the shrimp and nothing seemed to be wrong, I'm thinking my new anemone is the culprate (maybe got stung). All my other stuff is doing really well all the corals are growing and all the fish are happy and swiming around, guess thats why im not too worried.

anyone had the same problem?

Thanks

It's possible that's just the molt. See if there is any shrimp inside that shrimp.

My cleaner shrimp hide just before and after molting. Are you sure you examined the shrimp and not the molt? The first time I saw the molt from my cleaner, I thought it was dead too.

Not a molt
 

I've seen my cleaner shrimps molts (they have molted about 3 time each now) and it wasn't a molt he was dead as a door nail.

Sorry to hear it. Don't have any ideas about why it died. Have two cleaners in with my RBTA. They don't go near the RBTA much, either because of the aggressive tomatoes in it, or if they are afraid of becoming lunch.

Any changes in SG? That'll do it for those guys. How about any other changes in water paramaters? Anyhow, not that it really matters now. Sorry to hear.

I have kept lots of shrimp with anemonies, including a carpet and there was no problems.

Did you measure all your tank parameters after you found the dead shrimp?

Was the shrimp full size when you got it? (could have been old age?)

Age
 

Possably could have been old age, he was pretty freakin huge, How long do they live for?

Unfortunately, not very long. The longest I've ever had one live was maybe 3 years I think (maybe just under), but most seem to last me around 2 years. And another thing to consider, there's no telling how old they are when you buy them.

I always try to buy small ones so I know they are pretty young and are going to last at least 1 year, hopefully 2 or more.