Cleaner Shrimp in Pieces :(

Just for the record air bubbles will not kill a fish. Think about the billions of fish that live in the surf where there is far more bubbles than a air stone. Or for example what your display looks like if a powerheads begins to vortex and shred air into the water column. Or a return pump section that hasn't been topped off or is cavitating. Or the fact that they are common in freshwater tanks because they don't need the kind of flow we do and freshwater fish are just fine with there use, yet marine fish would die? Logic tells us otherwise. Aquarium myths that won't die hard.
 
They shed mate and as they shed, the hormones are sent out that every one picks up on and if the shed is slow they quite often get killed, as they are very susceptible during the shed!
Crays, shrimps etc, they all do this, making a gap and pulling ones self through that gap between carapace and tail and is a dangerous time and if they are not well fed up to it, they will take too long and possibly be killed.
A shed is a shell that is exactly like the creature that shed it, the shell of hairs, eyes everything is left as it pulls out through the gap.
 
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Just for the record air bubbles will not kill a fish. Think about the billions of fish that live in the surf where there is far more bubbles than a air stone. Or for example what your display looks like if a powerheads begins to vortex and shred air into the water column. Or a return pump section that hasn't been topped off or is cavitating. Or the fact that they are common in freshwater tanks because they don't need the kind of flow we do and freshwater fish are just fine with there use, yet marine fish would die? Logic tells us otherwise. Aquarium myths that won't die hard.

Virtually none of your marine fish were collected from the bubble zone, bubbles don’t kill fish, the stress of what they are not use to like bubbles on gills kills the fish!
Breath in water spray with air for a few hours and see how stressed you will become!
 
Just for the record air bubbles will not kill a fish. Think about the billions of fish that live in the surf where there is far more bubbles than a air stone. Or for example what your display looks like if a powerheads begins to vortex and shred air into the water column. Or a return pump section that hasn't been topped off or is cavitating. Or the fact that they are common in freshwater tanks because they don't need the kind of flow we do and freshwater fish are just fine with there use, yet marine fish would die? Logic tells us otherwise. Aquarium myths that won't die hard.

at our shop we had a sump run low one evening and the next morning the system was filled with microbubbles.....massive loss.....not the same as an air stone though
 
Has anyone experienced their scavengers (crabs, snails..) eating their shrimps molt? That's what made me assume he has died rather than molted.

Never seen snails do it other than nassarius ( usually under the sand and have a long snout - look like a submarine coming up out of the sand) which can make a meal of a fish so that you see no evidence that the fish ever was in the tank. crabs will eat anything they find so yes.
 
When a shrimp sheds it can look like a whole other shrimp, I mean it sheds completely so I wouldn't worry too much about this.
 
at our shop we had a sump run low one evening and the next morning the system was filled with microbubbles.....massive loss.....not the same as an air stone though

Fair enough. Extreme amount of microbubbles yes. Air stone, no way.
The way it was worded would suggest that an airstone in a marine tank will kill fish, especially because they are marine fish. Yet most freshwater bodies of water have little to no air bubble formation, however on a shallow reef they are loaded with bubbles.

There are plenty of reefs that have waves break on or near them and house many of the fish we keep. Just clarifying information. ;)
 
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