Hawaii 4 line wrasse ate my cleaner shrimp

[crimper]

do you still want to shoot your wrase?

[reefy]

Originally Posted by crimper

do you still want to shoot your wrase?

hahaha

[Frogger]

Not sure about 4 line wrasses but 6 line wrasses are very territorial and this could just have been a get out of my territory attack.

I used to have a six line wrasse that I wanted to shoot but he was too fast to catch.

[Dearth]

4, 6 and 8 line wrasse are known to be territorial and have been known to kill fish, coral and inverts

User beware

[gregzz4]

I've run across this before. Established shrimp are OK around new fish for me, but newly added shrimps are food.
Try adding the next one after lights out.

[Frogger]

I saw a video on the web that showed putting a mirror up against one side of the glass when you add new inhabitants allows the new animal to blend in while the established fish actually attack the mirror.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Frogger

mirror up against one side of the glass

Not a bad idea, but every time I've used a mirror to deflect aggression, all it's done is pee off all the aggressive fish, and the ones that are going after weaker ones still do so.
The result for me has been a more aggressive fish who's POd and the target ends up getting it worse !!