Peppermint Shrimp dying

stones

stones

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I bought a peppermint shrimp to eat up my aptasia anemone. It was dead within 5-6 hours. So i took it back to the LFS & took in water for them to sample & i had sampled everything in my tank & everything comes back perfect even from the LFS. They gave me another one, several hours later he was also dead.
I'm running a secondary tank in my spare bedroom, it's just a 10 gallon tank with 12lbs. of well established live rock with lots of coraline on them. I have 2 percula clowns, 2 emerald crabs & a turbo snail. All have been doing great, except these 2 shrimp.
Any ideas? Or am i just having a stretch of bad luck in getting 2 bad shrimp in a row?
 
sculpin

sculpin

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Did you float the bag for 30 minutes or drip acclimation for 30 minutes? Invertebrates are very very sensitive to abrupt changes in water chemistry, including some trace elements. Make sure you drip acclimate if you didn't already.
Good luck
Sculpin
 
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