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MizTanks
12-12-2009, 09:13 AM
Anyone have an idea of how long a peppermint shrimp lives? I've had mine for about 5-6 months now~no telling how long the previous owner had her~but she died some time during the night~I saw her yesterday morning out en about during feeding time~but she wasn't as vigorous as usual.

My emerald crab also died a couple of days ago~two days after I got her~I'm hoping nothings going on in my tank~I've done nothing different.

It's not molt this I know for sure.

at
12-12-2009, 01:30 PM
I know I have had one for at least a year, because it somehow got in the sump/refuguim.The others I dont know they kind of just dissappear

MizTanks
12-12-2009, 01:37 PM
Ya think a large hungry Bristle worm would have killed her?

jojo22
12-12-2009, 01:46 PM
I don't recall but I do know that their use to be a species spotlight on them, I tried to find it but couldn't. Maybe Jim knows where it's hiding!!

Sir Patrick
12-12-2009, 02:48 PM
I kept one for almost 3 years. I baught a group of 8, and all but 2 died the firt year, another lasted almost 2 years, and the last almost 3 years.