Peppermint Shrimp

Our Peppermint Shrimp died the day after the Turbo snail was added to the tank. The shrimp was fairly large, so it could have been old age. More reading has lead us to believe that adding too much Iodine to the tank could cause stress, premature molting and even death of shrimp. It is probable that some of the measures that I was using to save the finger leather coral caused the untimely demise of the peppermint. :(

The new turbo that was added to the tank to help with the hair algae problem doesn't seem to be doing very well. We have already had to flip him back over a few times to avoid him dying upside-down! The turbo ended up falling one last time and this time he rolled down into a hole in one of our live rock. I was unable to reach him and ended up having to extract him with pliers after he was obviously dead (our Nassarius snails were moving in to clean him up!) We are very sad for our Turbo!