Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

Man, my 2 cleaner shrimp have freaked out. I watch one of them go absolutely crazy last night, eventually killing over right in front of me. The other one shortly there after started acting crazy, very similar to the first one, but was still alive by the time I went to bed last night. However, when I left him he wasn't looking too good. What is going on? My blood shrimp is perfectly fine as of last night, not acting at all like the two cleaners. My parameters are all in line. I was thinking about electricity getting in my tank but my darn volt meter is not working. I put my finger in the tank and touched all kinds of areas to try and ground myself (crazy, I know) but I couldn't feel anything. Coincidentally a few other corals don't look as good as they have. One of my feather dusters is really looking scrawny and some of my xenia is looking ratty. Thoughts?

Ouch Russ.. that stinks, I don't have any idea what might be causing it, but I think I'd run a big batch of carbon, as it's pretty cheap compared to what some of the things we keep in our tanks costs.

I just removed a batch of carbon I had been running for the previous 24 hours. Could it be possible that carbon some how was a problem?

Have you run water test...what are the results....how long have you had the shrimp...

All my parameters are right in line. No swings at all from the last test. I've had those shrimp about 1 year each. I wouldn't have thought much about one killing over, normal atrition. But two freaking out right in front of me, one after the other, is strange.

you sure your not looking at the shed

Yes. Its the entire shrimp, both shrimp. Its a true mystery.

Have you recently medicated the tank? Water change? Temperature swing? New chemical additions? New Food? New coral or fish? Any cleaning products sprayed into the air in the room the tank is in?

Just a list of things I've read/done in the past.

I did just change the flake food yesterday around 1pm. Wow. Think that could have possible kllled them?

any bug spray......have you used any iodine...they need that to molt

We had a similar thing happen to a tank we had just moved.. all the copepods started to jump around then die and the Coral Banded Shrimp started to do the same thing acting like it had been stung by an anemone. We took it out and moved it to a different tank and did a large water change the CBS lived but most of the copepods didn't.

Have you added any new rock where a hitchhiker could have arrived?

The only thing I added in the last day was some new food and a bag of carbon. Nothing else. The more I research this the more I think this shrimp had molting problems and just kicked the bucket as a result. I'm going to get an iodine tester and just see where I am on that. I'll work on a water change as well. All my parameters have been right in line, however, I only test for Nitrate, Amonia, Calcium, Alkalinity, Salinity Level and PH. They have always molted fine in the past but that is not to say something isn't wrong.

I hate to say it but if all cks out it could be just bad luck...I would keep close eye on everything else and see what happens....I have lost corals before when everything cks out ok and I have had them for a long while just rtn for no reason......no changes or anything just sometimes stuff happens.,....thats always scarry...