missing shrimp?

[jja]

My peppermint shrimp seems to have just dissapeared! I have not seen him in 2 weeks-not even a trace. What could have eaten him? My only guess is that the dottyback killed him and the emeralds and hermits cleaned up all evidence. Any thoughts?

 

[buzz]

Same thing happened with my peppermint shrimp...not so much as a leg remaining. I think my Tomato Clown ate what it could, and pushed the rest into my anemone.

 

[jja]

any other ideas?

 

[striker]

Wait until 4-5 in the morning when it is completely dark and sneak up to the tank with a red flashlight. You'll find him creeping around the rocks. If you use a regular flashlight it will just scare them away. I have a peppermint and a camel back which I wouldn't see for over a month. They almost never come out during daylight unless they are in groups.

 

[jja]

It used to always come out when I fed them and all of a sudden the aptasia is coming back. He is gone! I have also done 3 water changes since I saw him last.

 

[komet]

I bought a peppermint shrimp about a month ago. Aside from the day I put him in I hadnt seen him once until two days ago. I was looking in my tank about an hour after the lights went out. I saw him crawling between rocks. I thought it was dead!! I guess I was expecting him to be in view all the time like my cleaner shrimp was. Yesterday I saw he had molted on my leather coral.