Stupid cleaner shrimp...

[LostMind]

I buy a bunch of stomatella snails...

put half in one tank, half in the tank with the cleaners... I decided to feed the shrimp and fish before I put the snails in the tank. So, all my critters pig out (shrimp at a big bundle of brine shrimp each <shrimp eating shrimp is funny somehow>) and everyone seems happy so I add the new stomatella snails and a few other snails (nassarious and a conch) and the FIRST thing my shrimps do (both of them) is run for the stomatella's and go nuts on them like they are ambrosia or something. I lost two snails before I realised what was happening (I thought the shrimp were just checking the snails out... doh!)

So, I went and dropped a bit more brine shrimp in the tank. Both shrimp grabbed a bunch more and I thought the shrimp must have just been hungry... oops, my mistake... lesson learned, right?

So I come back to the tank 15 mins later and notice that the rock I put the stomatella on seem to be missing a few more snails.. take a quick glance at my shrimps and both have another stomatella in their dirty lil claws!

So I fed them some mysis shrimp I have, figuring maybe they just want to eat like rich men and have some variety... shrimps both grab a big bunch of mysis shrimps and go to their rock and start chowing...

Now, I had half a dozen stomatella in my tank somewhere before I added the cleaners... I see one or two occassionally still. But, out of a dozen I added today, I think there are only 2 survivors left as of lights out.

Stupid shrimp!