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babyreef 09-28-2011 01:28 AM
Cleaner shrimp CLEANING or ATTACKING a Stomatella Snail -- YOU DECIDE
 
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toytech 09-28-2011 02:08 AM
That is one mean cleaner shrimp, must have been a pit bull in a previous life . I think more likely that shrimp is hungry and well if its smaller than you its probably food.

wingedfish 09-28-2011 02:14 AM
my cleaner pries them off the rocks and eats them constantly, thought it was normal biology.

Delphinus 09-28-2011 02:22 AM
Unfortunately, shrimp will devour Stomatella. Cleaner shrimp, peppermints .. it sucks to be a Stomatella when things with claws live in the tank.

AquaticFinatic 09-28-2011 02:26 AM
That's a hungry shrimpf! Cleaners have been known and do eat snails etc. He's definitely trying to eat it.

naesco 09-28-2011 04:44 AM
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Originally Posted by babyreef (Post 639268)
Caught this event in my tank today. It looked like an attack by my Cleaner Shrimp on a Stomatella Snail. I have heard Peppermint Shrimp will eat them but never heard of Cleaner Shrimp eating them. So being a Cleaner Shrimp, was he attempting an unsolicited cleaning of this small Snail? YOU DECIDE.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJYMWIEi2Yo
What do you feed your cleaner shrimp?

gobytron 09-28-2011 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by naesco (Post 639340)
What do you feed your cleaner shrimp?
Tangs with stupid hats...

babyreef 09-28-2011 02:15 PM
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marie 09-28-2011 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Delphinus (Post 639280)
Unfortunately, shrimp will devour Stomatella. Cleaner shrimp, peppermints .. it sucks to be a Stomatella when things with claws live in the tank.
It sucks to be a stomatella period.....everything with a mouth eats them. I had a blennie that used to swim around my tank wearing the shell as a hat :lol:

Aquattro 09-28-2011 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by gobytron (Post 639386)
Tangs with stupid hats...
Gotta love stupid jabs, eh?

Seriously, what do you feed the shrimp? If they don't get enough food, they'll go hunting for things you'd prefer they didn't eat. I target feed mine with mysis, they don't eat their neighbours :)

babyreef 09-28-2011 05:22 PM
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Aquattro 09-28-2011 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by babyreef (Post 639432)
I don't believe they are under fed it that's where your going. I maintain a balanced ecosystem and believe I feed appropriately. The shrimp in question is healthy and growing/moulting.
Ya, that's where I was going. Mine wouldn't eat if they relied on fish to miss anything :) I have to feed them or they'd be flipping snails.

naesco 09-28-2011 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by babyreef (Post 639432)
I throw some pellets in the tank, they go directly to the bottom, chromis wont touch them on the way down. I watch the shrimp gobble them up. They also get a little bit of everything else that goes in the tank. I don't believe they are under fed it that's where your going. I maintain a balanced ecosystem and believe I feed appropriately. The shrimp in question is healthy and growing/moulting.
Try throwing in shrimp pellets at night.

gobytron 09-28-2011 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Aquattro (Post 639407)
Gotta love stupid jabs, eh?

Seriously, what do you feed the shrimp? If they don't get enough food, they'll go hunting for things you'd prefer they didn't eat. I target feed mine with mysis, they don't eat their neighbours :)
Not as much as you gotta love the tang police...
especially when they advertise.


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