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.

 

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...

 

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!

 

I seen my bta eat the carcus after my skunk cleaner discarded it.. If not, sorry for your loss...

 

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)

 

You'd be surprised how well a shrimp can hide Give it a few more days before you count the shrimp out. Karma anyway

 

If indeed hes dead, sorry for your loss. Krama

 

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?

 

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.