Missing coral banded shrimp!

[Blizzard 123]

I purchased a coral banded shrimp from petco today, to my surprise when I looked in the tank a few hours later he is gone?

Do they hide when first added or did one of my fish eat him?


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[norfolkgarden]

They hide until they are comfortable. Give it a few days.

Do you have a hawkfish?
Or triggers, puffers?
They would be some of the likely happy full fish.
What size tank, how much rock to hide in, what other fish do you have?

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[Blizzard 123]

Tank is 90 gallons, not much rock but plenty for him to hide in.

The two most likely to eat the shrimp would be my six line and dottyback. No triggers puffers or hawkfish.

Thanks for the help, I hope he is just hiding


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[Blizzard 123]

Shrimp was found dead today


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[fijisrfr]

Are you sure or was it the molted shell?


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[Blizzard 123]

Yep was the shrimp I don’t know what happened? He survived the acclimation yesterday so something happened last night. I found him stuck against a filter today is it possible he got stuck there and died?


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[norfolkgarden]

Originally Posted by Blizzard 123

Shrimp was found dead today


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Sorry to hear.
If you do a replacement consider a blood red fire shrimp or a skunk cleaner shrimp.
They play well with others.

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[Blizzard 123]

Yeah I’m think a skunk cleaner for my next shrimp, will also be more peaceful then the coral banded. Hopefully next time he makes it.

Thanks for the help, much appreciated


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[oldhead]

I really like my blood red shrimp. My yellow tang backs into his cave to get cleaned. It is the coolest thing to watch. I also have a coral banded shrimp.

[Blizzard 123]

I like the bright red on the blood shrimp, will have to see what the lfs has in stock. The cleaning also sounds cool.

Thanks for the suggestion


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[Uncle99]

Originally Posted by Blizzard 123

Yep was the shrimp I don’t know what happened? He survived the acclimation yesterday so something happened last night. I found him stuck against a filter today is it possible he got stuck there and died?

When you say acclimation, that was salinity match from the package, very slow increase in salinity and temp to DT parameters right?

Very supceptible to transfer shock.....

Bloods and skunks both great additions


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[Blizzard 123]

Yep acclimation was very slow, used a drip acclimation to match salinity and temperature acclimated to tank.

Will defiantly look into those shrimp and do a more thorough acclimation when I get them to make sure the acclimation doesn’t kill them.

Thanks for help


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[mndfreeze]

Make sure when you drip acclimate that you do it for a long time, but not so slow of a drip that the temp actually drops a lot. I've had issues with that before. The slow drip adjustment for water chemistry wasn't able to keep up with the heat loss in the container.

How long did you drip acclimate for? I like to float the bags first for like 20/30ish minutes with the lights off, then move to a big enough container that I can drip in for another 30 min to an hour depending on what creature it is. Some things need longer but then you run into the possible temp issues.

Also if your water is VASTLY different then the store water it could take much longer to adjust. Some stores run FOWLR gravity so it takes a lot more water dripping to adjust to reef levels. Inverts are super sensitive.

[Blizzard 123]

Yeah I drip acclimated for about an hour or so but I don’t it was enough for the shrimp.i was basing my acclimation time on what I used for the snails I purchased from petco, but might have not been enough.

I believe petco runs there tanks at 1.022-1.023 specific gravity and I run my tank at 1.025 the hour acclimation was probably not enough for that adjustment.

Next invert. I will do much slower acclimation and add a heater in the acclimation bucket to maintain temp.

Thanks for the help.


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[norfolkgarden]

Originally Posted by Blizzard 123

Yeah I drip acclimated for about an hour or so but I don’t it was enough for the shrimp.i was basing my acclimation time on what I used for the snails I purchased from petco, but might have not been enough.

I believe petco runs there tanks at 1.022-1.023 specific gravity and I run my tank at 1.025 the hour acclimation was probably not enough for that adjustment.

Next invert. I will do much slower acclimation and add a heater in the acclimation bucket to maintain temp.

Thanks for the help.


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If you keep the bag in the tank and use a tiny reservoir to add water (I use an old hydrometer half full). You skip the cold issue and the small reservoir keeps me from moving too quickly.
Slowly fill the bag full with new water, maybe every 3-4 minutes with half a hydrometer, empty half, fill it again. Check salinity. Maybe empty half and fill it again a third time.
Should take about 1 to 2 hours.

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[Blizzard 123]

Yeah this does sound like a good idea and will keep temp. Stable while acclimating. I will have to try it with my next addition thanks for suggestion.


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