Cleaner shrimp

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  1. shazane

    shazane Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    So I bought a cleaner shrimp about 3 weeks ago. right when i got him I found out I had ich and removed my sailfin tang to quarantine. I couldnt find my cleaner shrimp about a week after that. I recently read that "Shrimp hide after they shed their exoskeleton to let it harden." Is this true? could by shrimp be hiding for over 2 weeks?
    90 gallon tank
    100lbs of live rock
    1 inch sand
    20g sump
     
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  3. ReefWizard

    ReefWizard Coral Banded Shrimp

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    2 weeks is way too long for molting. Most likely gone. Sorry
     
  4. ccscscpc

    ccscscpc Millepora

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    Yea...thats a long time. When I got mine a couple of weeks ago I lost him for a day or two!

    I saw his molt shell on a rock and then the next day it was gone. I think he consumed it.

    Then a day or two later he was out, he's not out all the time though...I have to look for him every once in a while.
     
  5. pjracer

    pjracer Peppermint Shrimp

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    I recently bought one and it molted and then died. two weeks seems to long. It is a cleaner shimp rite? I have a pistol shrimp. havent been able to find him for a month but thats normal.
     
  6. shazane

    shazane Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Thanks guys, picked up another cleaner and a peppermint. Somethings gotta somewhat entertain me while I am fallow...