Oh Man.. My First Loss

[svirid]

Hi guys,

I just got back from my 1 week vacation, tank was looking fine not problem,
plenty of algoe. I cleaned it all, now tank and sand looks fine. Actually it looks like
nasariuses doing their job with the sand.

before I left I added phosphate remover into my external filter. My phosphate was pretty high.
all other readings were 0.

After my return home, phophate and other were 0. I have noticed that one of my fire shrimps spending
all the time on the pumps trying to hide
or something on the other side of it. Even when I added some flakes it did not do anything before it was running like
hell trying to catch one. The other shrimp were looking fine. 2 days later which is now, I came home and found shrimp dead.
The other one was trying to eat it I guess.

Can u please tell me what happened any clue?

Thank you very much.

 

[shibby]

sure it didnt molt n hide behind for safety.... other then that if it was a big un shrimps dont live amazing long lengths ....

 

[svirid]

Shrimps were molting before, dont really know which ones they look the same to me.
No shrimp was dead, I could see it lost its bright red color and become whity.

So u saying that shrimp were old? how long do they live?

 

[SkiFletch]

I'm pretty sure they only live 2-5 years, pretty short life span for most of our aquaria

 

[svirid]

I hope it shrimp was old thats why it died.

I also had 5 hermits, and I found one empty shell of hermit now, what happened to the crab? I assumed he just left shell and died? right? I was not able to get bigger shells for them yet, I think that why?

What do u think?

 

[n3ont3tra]

Another crab could've ate him or he could've moved into another shell.

 

[svirid]

Yesterday I bought 4 new shells now one is already gone and I can see empty small crap shell.
Probably the others will be gone too soon.

 

[chrissaysyes]

small crap shell.

The "B" and "P" keys are so far from one another...you have a dirty mind sir.

 

[svirid]

small crap shell.

The "B" and "P" keys are so far from one another...you have a dirty mind sir.

)))))))))) Oh man, sorry guys! My bad!

 

[chrissaysyes]

Haha it's fine

Crabs can swap shells almost instantly, I think scarlet hermits are more inclined to do so than blue legs. Do you have any snails? If they were really desperate for new shells then your snails would be the first to go.

 

[svirid]

Haha it's fine

Crabs can swap shells almost instantly, I think scarlet hermits are more inclined to do so than blue legs. Do you have any snails? If they were really desperate for new shells then your snails would be the first to go.

Yes I have nasariuses and turbo snails but they all pretty big for crabs to get their shells

 

[chrissaysyes]

You just wait