I have 3 good sized peppermint shrimp. I added a cleaner shrimp and a small 6 line wrasse. Also in the nano tank are 2 emerald crabs, diamond goby and maron clown. My cleaner shrimp has seamed to disappear and my wrasse has gone missing as well. I am thinking the peppermint shrimp got to them. What are your thoughts on the disappearence.
3 peppermint shrimp vs 1 cleaner shrimp ?
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Highly unusual... I've never heard of peppermints actually killing other shrimp let alone a fish. I don't think they have the tools necessary to hold a fish down and kill it. Your other inhabitants aren't the usual suspects either... If you just recently added them, they could just be hiding very effectively which is my guess.
I have 3 peppermints and a cleaner shrimp as well... my cleaner disappeared after about two weeks and I thought it was a gonner... but sure enough, I went looking with a flashlight at night and spotted the cleaner.
They all seem to be doing okay together... I think the peppermints just convinced the cleaner to stay hidden so I would be annoyed.
They all seem to be doing okay together... I think the peppermints just convinced the cleaner to stay hidden so I would be annoyed.
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I also have three peppermints, a cleaner, and a 6-line wrasse. They all seem to get along fine.
Hope this helps,
David
Hope this helps,
David
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i just got a sixline and he is mean as hell he scares off my clown that is like twice his size but i also have a pepperment and he is still alive at leasre for now
The meanest thing in the tank is the clown, but I don't think he would kill a cleaner. Oddly a big emerald could have done some damage. Sometimes fish and inverts just bite it... odd that they disappeared soon after being added in. Maybe they just didn't acclimate well.
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If its been 2 weeks... then its prolly time to hold a memorial service. Although its not unheard of for the fish to be hidden for that long. Did you check your overflow and sump?
When I first got my sixline, I didn't see him for over 2 weeks also. I had a percula and coral beauty in the tank before the wrasse. This could have been the problem. Once the wrasse got comfortable he stays in plain view constantly. My sixline often eats the algae in the tank, so during that time I guess that is what was keeping him alive.
My sixline had done this before in the biocube and stayed perfectly healthy until I found him. The problem last night was when he tucked himself under the motor back there. He usually wedges in a rock to sleep at night and I think this is why he was under the motor and not swimming in the back compartment. The previous time he had jumped was during the day and he was just swimming around. Anyway, my percula is in mouring and very lonely. They grew up together.
I dont understand it, Last night when i got off work. I took a flashlight and looked everywhere for the cleaner and my wrasse and nowhere to be found? I even looked in the back filter compartment. I re-arranged my rock work in the nano today and still no sign of either?? My guess is the wrasse just died and my blue legs ate him. As far as the cleaner shrimp I have no idea??
