Cleaner Shrimp death

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Well. I got home yesterday with my cleaner shrimp and acclimated it for 1/2 an hour. Put it in, it was doing great. Then this morning, I find parts of it stuck to my Tunze 6305 powerheads. Im wondering what happened? Could it be that this poor thing just got stuck cause of too much flow?

Please help me figure it out.

 

[charlesr1958]

Powerheads? As in plural? If so, then the shrimp would have had to have been in pieces before the pump inlets could have captured them.

Chuck

 

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Good point, makes sence, thanks charles. So most likely the shrimp was dead before it got chomped..

One thing I should mention is Im feeding the fish seachems recipe of metronidazole, focus, garlic guard all added to frozen mysis. Could having eaten this have killed my shrimp?

 

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Also I have a lot of red flat worms in the tank. I added a 6 line wrasse about a month ago and it also died overnight. What to think?...

 

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Actually, now that I look at it, the legs are stuck onto the inside of the screen that comes on the outlet of the Tunze pumps. The 6305s are brutes. im no ruling out that perhaps it got sucked though and died.

 

[EllieSuz]

A healthy shrimp would not get sucked into a powerhead. Have you considered the possibility that this was a molt? They hide very successfully for a couple of days after a molt. Just a thought.

 

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I wish you were right about the molt thing. But I saw some shrimp meat stuck to a 6305.

Im not sure you realize how much flow a 6305 dishes out. Almost 8000gallons per hour. With the holes on the intake being large enough for a shrimp to go through.

 

[EllieSuz]

You're right, I can't relate to anything that powerful compared to my tiny system. I also figured you had been at this long enough to recognize a molt. It was wishful thinking, I guess.

 

[obzezzed350]

Maybe you went a little quick on the acclimation...I have always down my cleaner shrimp for 2 hours.

 

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Thanks, I did 1/2 an hour drip as my lfs suggested. Maybe I should have gone longer.

Elliesuz, I still have alot to learn.