cleaner shrimp missing?

[marvinsae]

i just purchased 2 cleaner shrimp and acclimated them for about an hour with the drip method...however one of them died i have no idea. this isn't the first time i've had something die on me. i think it might be one particular lfs i purchase livestock from cause all the other fish and such were purchased else where n doing fine. well anyways, the second cleaner shrimp seemed to be doing find all night until i went to bed and now he's no where to be found. could it be my bristle star that ate it? it's a fancy red bristle star and he never comes out of the rocks anymore. or possibly the shrimp died due to other causes and the star just scavenged his remains?

[marvinsae]

bump..

could it be anything else? i have 2 yellow tail damsels 2 occelaris clowns 1 blue powder, 1 diamond watchman goby and 7 astrea snails along with the fancy red brittle star.... i really want cleaner shrimp but if its the star, which would benefit my tank more, a couple of cleaner shrimps or more starfish...

[Rogue951]

I would think it's the brittle star, or maybe u have a pistol/mantis shrimp somewhere.
Don't think those other fish would go after cleaners.

If it came to the 2 I'd take the shrimp over the star.