Cleaner shrimp keep going missing

[thecommentr86]

Hey guys I’m a little lost I own a 35 gallon tank with a blood shrimp, 2 clownfish, a small six line wrasse and a watchman goby. I have attempted to put cleaner shrimp in on 2 seperate accounts but when they molt I can’t find the body only the empty molt. I have no idea what’s eating them or how they are dying as the bloodshrimp is fine, the hermit crabs are fine, and from what I’ve read online clownfish, watchman goby’s and six lines don’t attack cleaner shrimp and before they molted non of the fish picked at them and even went to them for cleanings. Not sure what to do as I love cleaner shrimp and how they look but can ever figure out what’s going on. Any advice?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I would not blame the fish, but perhaps the shrimp. Its unlikely, but its more likely than the fish, blood shrimp are territorial. Its a lead, but I would still try to find other possible reasons

 

[PharmrJohn]

How new is the tank?

 

[thecommentr86]

How new is the tank?

2.5 years I have corals which are doing amazing!

 

[Outlaw Corals]

I have a crazy shrimp story, so i had 6 shrimp I’m my 90 gallon for a long time, 4 cleaner shrimp and 2 blood shrimp and they were all good together, no issues at all, this was last summer i got 3 fish from live aquria they had some type of sale going on so i jumped on it, i got a dusky wrasse a orange diamond goby and a gold stripe maroon clown, so the fish come in and i get them in the tank, as soon as i get them in the wrasse bolts right into the sand so fast i never even got a look at him, never to be seen again, anyway, every night I used to feed the fish at the same time, and as soon as I cut the flow off, all of the shrimp would get to their spots, they each had their own spot to wait for the pumps to go back on to blow around whatever food was left, they were pretty strategic. They won’t knew where their best chance would be to try and grab some food, so I had a pretty cool little process going on every night at feeding time, so now it’s November right before the holidays we’re about to kick off and I go to feed the fish one night and I felt the red flag go off inside my head but I really wasn’t sure everything seemed OK but the red flag is staying with me. I still have this uneasy feeling. Then a few days later I go to feed and that’s when it hit me. I noticed I was missing a couple shrimp, so I’m looking all over for the shrimp and I can’t find anything. I even wait till night time and start looking around with a flashlight and don’t find anything, so a couple days later I go to feed and I noticed a couple more shrimp are missing and I go through the same process and can’t find any of them, a couple days later I go to feed again and now I only have one shrimp left and I can’t figure out for anything. Where are all the shrimp going? What is happening? It’s driving me crazy at this point so now I’m down to one shrimp and now I’m looking every night with the flashlight for any other shrimp, a couple nights later I go to my Tank with the flashlight to look again, and what do I find? The dusky wrasse that i haven’t seen in a few months that i thought was dead, he got all of my shrimp, and the crazy thing is that was the first and only time, and also the last time that I ever saw that dusky wrasse !!!

 

[AC1211]

You'll never guess how I lost 6 shrimp total. On separate occasions.

I lost two cleaner shrimp. Both in a crazy circumstance I never envisioned.

In one instance, my nassarius snails were eating mysis from the bottom of the tank. Then my cleaner shrimp is eating nearby. One of them gets its foot over the cleaner shrimps legs then they just kept eating.

In the other instance it was the same thing just that in this case the shrimp had freshly molted.

Then I decided I wouldn't add another cleaner shrimp.

From there I lost 4 peppermint shrimp due to a yellow coris wrasse that I thought I had lost.