dead cleaner shrimp

[slicavoli]

I have a 24 gallon aqua-pod with MH Light.

40 lbs live sand
20 lbs of live rock
2 Mated True Perc clowns
1 small yellow tang
2 emerald crabs
10 snails
10 Hernit Crabs

I also have a clam, zoo's, mushrooms, brain coral, and frogspawn

The tank has been up and running for 4 months and everything is doing well.

The levels are as follows:
ph 8.2
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 25
Ammonia 0
salinty 1.026

I added the cleaner shrimp last night and today it was dead, I also lost one of my emerald crabs.

I had the fish store check my water and there tests came out the same as mine.

About 2 weeks ago i added a anenome, and royal gamma and they both died and so did the fire shrimp I had in there.

I did use some iodine for two days about two weeks ago and some pytoplankton. but after the annomie and fireshrimp and royal gamma died I thought that might have been the problem so I quit using it all together a couple weeks ago.

At that time my ammonia level went up and so did my nitrates.
ammonia 1.0
Nitrate 25

I drip acclimated the shrimp for about 1 1/2 hour before I put him in also

Any help or ideas!!

Help

 

[Anonymous]

At 4 months old your tank is extremely young and it's also small. It's very easy to overstock a young small tank. It happens all too frequently.
What type of filtration and circulation do you have in this tank?
3 fish in a 24 gal tank is pushing it, adding more and other invertebrates is asking for trouble especially at this stage.
Without knowing the answer to my question above, my advice is to slow down, and let your tank mature at least a couple of more months before adding anything else.

Regards,
David Mohr