cleaner shrimps dying!!!

[annanymous]

hi everyone,
i recieved my guaranteed cleaner shrimp from swf.com and the same thing hapened to it as to the first one. both were fine during acc;limation period which was a bit more than 2 hours, but both died 2 min within being put in the tank. water param. are all good. i have an anemone that it doing fine, but shrimp for some reason wouldn't. any idea why?

 

[nas19320]

Do you have other inverts in the tank and if yes how long have they been in the tank? What are your water parameters?

 

[annanymous]

i have a cleaner crew taht seem to be doing well. all the astrea snails are about 1.5 times the size they came as. they've been in the tank for about a month.
water par.:
ammonia 0
nitrate0-5 [cant tell from the color]
nitrites 0
Ph 8.0
temp. 80-82
calc. 375 [trying to get it up]
alk - still didnt get the test.

 

[viper_930]

How much water was dripped during the acclimation? The overall tank water that was used should quadrouple (sp?) the water that is in the bag at least.

 

[annanymous]

well it was acclimating along with 3 more corals so there was water from 4 bags and during acclimation the water doubled.

 

[annanymous]

bump:sleepy:

 

[elfdoctors]

I would blame it on acclimation stress. Shrimp acclimate much more slowly than fish (or corals which only need a brief acclimation). They and starfish seem to be the hardest to acclimate. I try doing a 6 hour acclimation with shrimp. The water in the bag should at least quadruple.

 

[blitt]

I'm not an expert here but it seems that a ph of 8.0 is a little low that could also be added stress on a new species.

 

[jb rekit]

I think there might be something wrong with their cleaner shrimp right now b.c I just made my first order on here a week ago and everything was fine except the 2 cleaner shrimp I got were DOA. I got a bunch of crabs and a fire shrimp as well that all made it and are doing great right now.

 

[annanymous]

what is the normal pH range for a reef ... 8.0-8.4 or 8.2-8.6

 

[bang guy]

I received another pair of Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp from SWF.COM a couple weeks ago and they are doing very well & producing lots of larvae. I don't think there's anything wrong with the Shrimp.
PH of 8.0 is just fine as long as the Shrimp are slowly acclimated using the drip method as outlined to the left.
I doubt it's Iodine because you didn't mention adding any.
I doubt it's Copper because everything else in the tank is fine. All I can think is that perhaps your drip rate was too slow in you only doubled the water volume in 2 hours. 6 - 8 drips per second is pretty quick.
FYI - I tested the PH in the Carribean over the reef and I came up with 7.8* in the morning and 8.6 evening. I could only get water from about 10 feet down though but these values should be close.
* - If I'm remembering correctly, it was a while ago.
I recommend keeping PH between 8.0 and 8.5 with 8.2 - 8.3 being ideal.

 

[annanymous]

thank you Bang Guy and everyone else

 

[emilyboyce195]

i have just set up a tank its around 1 1/2 months old i have taken my water to my local shop n they sed im all ready to start with cleaning crew since i only have live rock atm i brought a cleaner shrimp and some hermet crabs there doing fine but my shrimp lasted 30 mins i left the bags for 30 mins in the tank then added half a cup of my tank water every 10 mins to 2 hours then slowly drop him in the tank he went to the bottem moved around a bit but looked like he got a lil court in some hair algi i have but soon moved 30 mins later he moved fliped over n hasnt moved for over an hour now any ideas my water salt levals are 1.025 ???????