why do I wake up to dead shrimp??

[RedDragon]

Well I bought a banded shrimp about 4 days ago and the next morning he died...I coul not understand why?? I checked all levels all wore fine...than this morning my clearner shrimp was dead I had him for about 5-6 days....whats up with my tank could it be my fish?? I have 2 clown fish, 2 chromis, 1 bi color angel, yellow tang, and a scooter bleeny. what gives!!

[ErikH]

It could be a myriad of things. Your temperature could be dropping lower than you want it to overnight, and this could be the cause.... Could you tell us about your setup?

[RedDragon]

well I have a 65g tank with an eheim 2215 filter, forget the brand name heater but its one of the good ones, for water movement I have 3 powerheads each a different brand, as for lighting I have a single 96w pc setup.... 120 pounds of LR and a 4inch sandbed... hope this helps some... and I have about 24 blue leg hermits and 1 scarlet crab

[ErikH]

Do you find them twitching? Are you sure what you are finding are not the molts? Have you noticed the bicolor chasing or eyeballing them? It sounds like you have a sturdy setup with ample LR and sand. Are you acclimating them correctly?

[RedDragon]

no never twitchin and I'm pretty sure it was them and not the mold... I did not see the bi color eyeballin them...Do they eat shrimp?? if they do I did not know that?? I acclimated them right I mean the banded lived one whole day and the cleaner shrimp lived 5-6 days..

[ErikH]

Mine eats shrimp alot. It used to fight my scorpion for them. They are primarilly herbivores, and tend to eat algaes, sponges and the like. There is always the occasion where they may decide that they like other foods! For as peaceful of a fish as they are, mine's a tyrant.

Have you checked you alk at night? You could be going through a ph/alk swing from lights off to lights on that could be causing it. It could be that you have one of the harmful bristleworms, or a rogue voracious starfish that is stressing them out after dark.

[RedDragon]

found out my air pump went out... also lost my bi color angel:( almost lost all my fish but seen the bi color dead this morning did all my tests again, than really looked at my fish they seemed like they could'nt breath so looked around air pump had gone out...so I just put the air tool thing on the powerhead to put air in the water...prayed for the best when I went to work...came home to all the rest of my happy and swimmin all over the place fish soo sad for my cleaner and bi color tho:(