cleaner shrimp died

sorry about your lose... i lost 2 but it was becuase my flame hawk fish was hungry. damn pig.

 

Proper acclimation takes little of your time and will eliminate the disappointment of having to watch any new fish or other marine livestock introduced to struggle or just sink to the bottom of your tank and lay there after you drop them in.

May or may not be necessary (for some critters). :-/ But why take chance? --- Is good cheap insurance.

A LFS (even a good one) may not because it is just too time consuming when receiving a large shipment. Have seen mine (whom I consider "good") just dump everything into a large tub upon arrival. Let them sit a while and then distribute them out to his retail tanks. --- --- and this is with already very stressed out fish. If he loses one or two along the way for him it may just be a cost of doing business.

But for me it would be a traumatic and very costly experience. :-[

One that I can avoid by just taking a little time, and resisting the urge to see how much my new fish/invert looks in tank right away.

 

I never heard of skipping the acclimation process and just tossing them in the tank. Thats like taking me out of miami beach in the summer time and tossing me in alaska in the winter time, imagine that??? Im sorry for your loss truck2400 karma! I would really look at the water chemistry and re-look at your acclimation process before you do anything else. As stated, shrimps are pretty hardy critters. Best of luck, Luna

 

most stores have single sumps

HI,
I read where on member mentioned that one store moves animals from tank to tank.
Many petstores use a large sump for more than one tank , like 1/2 the store, and use a simple pvc overflow to return water to a single shared sump.
then they have one pvc line that returns water to the tanks and drips a small amount in each tank.
SO its one giant tank, all the parasites are shared as is the water .
My tanks all share a sump skimmer, and reforgium.
so the 37 gal has the same water as the 55 gal.
That a plus for us smaller tank system but can cause problems if the water is off.
Doug

 

Were all of the lfs' tanks plumbed together? If they were, then there's really no need to acclimate. That being said, while I don't spend much time acclimating fish, and I too take them out of the bag with my hands, I do spend at least an hour or more acclimating shrimp.