Magenta Dottyback ATE Cleaner Shrimp?

[Snaz]

I have three Sexy shrimps with my Orchid Dotty. One shrimp is really small too, a shrimpy shrimp. No issues. The shrimp were in the tank before the Dotty arrived for what it is worth.

[Pier Pressure]

I cannot think of anything else that would have caused the dotty to gain that much weight overnight and she looks guilty, too! In my case the dotty was there first and then I tossed in a couple of baby cleaners. She must have thought they were not-so-frozen food.

[simba]

on a related note.... one of my emerald crabs was eating my former dottyback early one morning last week. Is it possible for a crab to catch a fish during the night or did it die and then get eaten?

[Pier Pressure]

Hard call on the dottyback/crab thing but I had an emerald one time that was catching all the other crabs in the tank and eating them. He ended up going back to the pet store.

The second cleaner shrimp is still around but has moved from a cave at the front to a hidden cave in the rock work at the back. It did not come out at feeding time. The dottyback did come out but did not seem too interested in eating!

[fkshiu]

Originally Posted by Snaz

I have three Sexy shrimps with my Orchid Dotty. One shrimp is really small too, a shrimpy shrimp. No issues. The shrimp were in the tank before the Dotty arrived for what it is worth.

I find that having the potential food in the tank before introducing a potential predator can be important. It's almost as if the predator thinks the shrimp is part of the rockwork since "it was around when I got here" and ignores it.