SKUNK Cleaner dead in 3 minutes

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Hungriee

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I recently got a skunk cleaner shrimp and I drip acclimated it for about 45 minutes. When I tried to take it out of the bagging he was overly active and kept jumping and then I finally got him into my net and i placed him into the tank. He was still very active for the first 3 minutes, searching the sand then the rock. I went to throw the bag of fish water from LFS away and looked back he didnt move. So I didnt bother him but then I noticed he was barely moving, legs or whiskers so I used my net to poke him but he didnt move so I pronounced him dead; and grabbed him out.

I think I KILLED IT.:headshake2:
 
Test the tank for copper, it's very very bad on inverts.
 
0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrates. I started my tank with LR and LS two wks back and i just placed it in - then it died in 3 minutes; probably shocked from my handling? - I will get a Copper Test to check the parameters, for now I only have the API SW Test Kit
 
well I dont know..... I think that the acclimation procedure was alittle on the short side. I usually take care when I acclimate my inverts, so I usually do it for around a hour and a half. maybe it needed to acclimate to the water alittle more. Also test for copper and check your salinity and ph. They do not like it when the salinity is too low or too high. If all of these tests are fine, then that particular shimp you purchased may have been in bad shape. I once bought a purple firefish and he died in about 30 minutes inside of my tank, even though it looked fine at the lfs. I acclimated it for an hour and tested the water for everything, but nothing came up. You may want to change your lfs like I did.
 
Like said above I think high level of copper can lead to death like that in such a short time for inverts. Even if you threw a shrimp in without any acclimation, I honestly think they would last a lot longer than 3 minutes...possible even be ok. Do you use RO/DI water?
 
My guess would be specific gravity. Once again, what is it? And what are you using to test it? When was it last calibrated and with what?
Copper would be an option, but that is something that you would know if it were in the tank (because you would have put it in there) unless you got the tank/rock from someone used.
And did you temp acclimate him?
 
I've learned not to handle shrimps with a net because you can rip of limbs or antenna I use my hands to place them in the tank but that's my way you can do it however you want. I don't know why it would just die like that. 2 weeks for a tank to cycle is a rather short time.
 
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