OMG!!! I am so disappointed
 

I went out and finally coughed up $40 for a skunk cleaner shrimp today. So after carefully acclimatizing him I put him into my tank. He scooted around for a few minutes and then decided to have a snack . So as I am watching him stirr up some goodies around the back of the tank , all of a sudden both of my nassarius snails come flying out of nowhere. The one then procedes to completely engulf my beautiful little shrimp into his slimey slug body and has had him in a sleeper hold ever since. What the !@#!@# has anyone ever heard of this before? According to the lfs there is nothing in my tank that is uncompatible.I cannot believe it..............:cry:

Sorry to hear about your shrimp.

Are you sure these are Nassarius snails? That doesn't sound right - for one, just how big are they if they can engulf a cleaner shrimp (even a small cleaner)? Secondly, they're supposed to be scavengers not predators, and even the method of capture (enveloping) does not sound like a nassarius to me. Can you post a picture?

I once acclimated a cleaner shrimp for what I knew was not long enough... some emergency or impatience made me drop it in too fast (only 30 minutes or so).

The bristleworms found him and started in before he could get settled. It was gross.

If the acclimation goes bad for whatever reason the shrimp is damaged, and the scavengers know right away.

Yeah, how BIG are your snails?!? That's really unusual

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Wow!! And it actually looks to be a nassarius...

Where are the photos? (or is it just me that can't see them?) :(

Crazy I would not expect that I have some the same size. Those snails must of been real hungry.

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Looks like a larger type of nassarius, Tongan maybe.