Peppermint Shrimp Dead

[EnglishRebel]

In my fuge I have red and blue leg hermit crabs, snails, a sea serpent star (small) and a peppermint shrimp. I just added small hammerhead, torch, and frogspawn corals last Saturday. This morning I found my peppermint shrimp laying on the bottom -- dead. Is it possible the corals stung him? He's intact (at the moment) so I don't think the crabs got him. I should add he was fine yesterday and last week he molted.

[Geodriller]

I would say it is highly doubtful he was stung by a coral.


Inverts are very intolerant of changes in the water, esp. salinity and temperature. I would start thinking of other causes

[Geodriller]

BTW. If you take a gander at my avitar. That is my sexy anemone shrimp that lives happily in my frogspoawn coral.

[loosecannon]

Peppermint shrimp = ( Lysmata wurdemanni ) , it lives for about 4 years. So if you don`t get it when it`s small you don`t know how old it is . It may have died of old age.