Cleaner shrimp CLEANING or ATTACKING a Stomatella Snail -- YOU DECIDE

[naesco]

Originally Posted by babyreef

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]

Originally Posted by naesco

What do you feed your cleaner shrimp?

Tangs with stupid hats...

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by gobytron

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]

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[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by babyreef

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]

Originally Posted by babyreef

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]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

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.

[babyreef]

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