Cleaner Shrimp missing

[mxmarks]

Hello-

I got a cleaner shrimp about a 5 days ago. He was drip acclimated and did great. On day 2 I noticed he had molted, and saw him hanging out up in the top wall of the tank. Lights went out and I saw him go enter a cave.

Thats the LAST I saw of him.

So today I decided it was time to re-aquascape anyway, and moved things around looking for him. I dismantled the cave I last saw him in, and at the very bottom my sally lightfoot crab skittered away.

I googled it to find that numerous people have had sally lightfoot crabs eat cleaner shrimp right after they molt. Im not a happy camper.

I was wondering if someone can let me know how well they hide after a molt. I feel like I looked under every rock, but I guess its totally possible he could have hid really, really well. I also know that there wern't a TON of Sally Lightfoot murder stories - and mine is pretty small (maybe the size of a quarter, not counting the legs?).

So whats more likely? I think Im giving the lightfoot away now because of the possibility, but is this type of crab eating a cleaner shrimp more common than it just hiding really, really well?

And I have no fish that would eat shrimp (yellow tang, clowns, royal gramma, cardinal)

[caorca]

It's amazing how well a shrimp can hide. He might turn up yet. How big was he compared to the crab? A quarter size crab would have a hard time up against my cleaner shrimps.

[mxmarks]

The shrimp was definatley bigger than the crab. I'd say since the crabs body is round, so it was easy to compare to a quarter, the shrimp was maybe as long as 2 quarters side by side? He was definatley a bigger shrimp.

I just know I saw him right after the molt, and havent seen him since the lights went out that night. They hide really well? Because I overturned almost every rock and never saw a sign of him...

Ill keep up hope then!