Molt or death?

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Did my blue leg hermit crab molt or die?

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Peppermint shrimp eat dead stuff so he was probably already eating a dead critter in your tank, not the culprit of killing them. If you've ever been picked at by one, they don't have too much force.
 
Peppermint shrimp eat dead stuff so he was probably already eating a dead critter in your tank, not the culprit of killing them. If you've ever been picked at by one, they don't have too much force.

I actually witnessed it kill it. I was doing my morning checks a d saw one of my. Nassarius snails going into our caves... About 20 min later I was staring at my tank, looked into the caves with a flashlight and scared the shrimp off of the snail. The snail flipped over and tried to crawl away but the shrimp tackled it, flipped it over and then started to rip it put of his shell. Within 5 min he had it ate in half, and then 5 min later it surfaced out of the cave with the snail half way in its mouth/body and the other half hanging out of his mouth since it was too big to fit it all at once. :( that day I decided he had to go.

Now every time the last 2 snails surface when I'm feeding the clownfish the shrimp will jump on them and flip them over... Our shrimp is a bully.
 
I actually witnessed it kill it. I was doing my morning checks a d saw one of my. Nassarius snails going into our caves... About 20 min later I was staring at my tank, looked into the caves with a flashlight and scared the shrimp off of the snail. The snail flipped over and tried to crawl away but the shrimp tackled it, flipped it over and then started to rip it put of his shell. Within 5 min he had it ate in half, and then 5 min later it surfaced out of the cave with the snail half way in its mouth/body and the other half hanging out of his mouth since it was too big to fit it all at once. :( that day I decided he had to go.

Now every time the last 2 snails surface when I'm feeding the clownfish the shrimp will jump on them and flip them over... Our shrimp is a bully.



That's crazy! It might be a camel shrimp. Check and see if it is.
 
They are very close in resemblance<sp.> I have 2 peps and have had zero issue withem. they cleaned up the aiptasia and leave a GBTA alone and bother nothing else. Most cases I have seen of rogue peps are usually camels in disguise..LOL hope you catch him and get him out before to long either way.
 
Those look like real peppermints to me. (as you stated above) good luck catching em. I would try a submerged bottle with soem food in it. Opening small enough for him and not your fish if possible. (if you have trouble catching the lil sucker LOL)
 

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