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02-01-2008, 11:26 AM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
Posts: 290
|  RIP Cleaner Shrimp
Anemone took him down last night  I woke up this morning to a half devoured 25$ cleaner shrimp... I cried a little on the inside because my brothers were around... this maybe due to him being underfed, because my cleaner shrimp has even taken food from him before and he doesnt seem to do much about it... any thoughts.. i feed him mysis shrimp and sometimes a little chunk of salmon every week.
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40g with 10g sump with 40 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 3x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, carpenter's flasher wrasse, 6line, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
Coral - Yellow polyps, Kenya Tree, Purple Acro, Pink Birds Nest, Hammer coral. | 
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02-01-2008, 11:36 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,163
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Sorry for your loss man...We lost one a while back to our Spotted Hawk, who quickly was banished to a quarntine tank. He is now in a new tank with no shrimp... _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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02-01-2008, 11:56 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Are you sure it was your shrimp and not just a molt? | |
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02-01-2008, 12:09 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 45
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Originally Posted by amcarrig  Are you sure it was your shrimp and not just a molt? | Good question. I was sure I had lost my arrow last week. What looked like it had exploded turned out to be just a molt! 
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180 Gallon Reef, 150 lbs of LR and 4" LS. 4-175w 10k MH. 8-110 W actinic VHO, 2 Wave2K, LifeReef Skimmer . A 90 gal sump, Top-Off. 2Mag 9.5 return, Life Reef CR LCR-1. 1 Cin Clown, Bub coral, Xenia, Purp Tang, Yellow Tang, Pogoda, 4 Gobies, Niger Trigger, Angel, Brittle Star | |
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02-01-2008, 12:23 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007
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I seen my bta eat the carcus after my skunk cleaner discarded it.. If not, sorry for your loss... | |
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02-01-2008, 01:54 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
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Yup, he's definately toast... my tank isn't big enough for him to be hiding that well >< He was fairly large too (2-3 inches) | |
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02-01-2008, 03:49 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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You'd be surprised how well a shrimp can hide  Give it a few more days before you count the shrimp out. Karma anyway | |
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02-01-2008, 04:53 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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If indeed hes dead, sorry for your loss. Krama _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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02-03-2008, 01:40 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
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Well, what do guys think would be a good replacements? I was thinking a blood shrimp. The LFS has a pair of mating coral banded shrimp... what do you guys think? | |
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02-03-2008, 01:49 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Blood shrimp are shy unless kept in large numbers and since they tend to be expensive, not many people can afford to do that. I would avoid the banded shrimp as they tend to attack other decorative shrimp species so if you wanted to add another cleaner shrimp later on down the road, you stand to lose it to the banded shrimp. | |
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