Cleaner shrimp, dead or hiding?!?

[dareefking]

Hi everyone, I haveor possibly had a Cleaner Shrimp in my 20 nano reef. He was in there for about 2 months and seemed to be doing great. Last week he molted but seemed to still be hanging out not hiding. The past few days, I've been like "where's my cleaner" as I havent seen him.

He was being housed with a False Perc., Purple Firefish, Scarlett Hermit, Emerald Crab and I seem to have a bunch of bristleworms (if I had to guess 6-7).

I have about 25 lbs. of rock in the tank so I cant see around every corner. Is it more likely that he is just hiding due to the recent molt or that one or both of my crabs ate him? I know Emerald's arent known for eating meat but they seem to scavenge on whatever they find, at least from my experience. Would a Bristleworm do this?

Just trying to avoid moving my rocks and corals around to find him, especially if he is just hiding.

Any suggestions or experiences? Thanks

 

[GS-Rock]

your shrimp could be hiding it would not hurt too lift up some of the rocks to look under them

 

[AMIFL]

Yeah, he might be hiding or did you look on the floor? He made have gone skydiving.

 

[dareefking]

^^^LOL. Checked the floor no cleaner. But I have 4 cats and 2 dogs so if he did end up on the floor, the evidence is gone.

I might try moving some things around... I'ma give him another day or so. Maybe feed some frozen mysis, he likes that.

Could ick affect inverts? I recently lost a clown to ick. But that was like 3 weeks ago. My other clown caught it, I started adding garlic extreme to the water and he is better.

The only other thing I can think of is I did a water change 2 nights ago, but I poured the water into a sink. I would've seen him if he was in there.