Amazing thing happened!

[snorvich]

I have a mated pair of Alpheus soror pistol shrimp. Yesterday, I saw a tang (Chevron) being cleaned by the pistol shrimp. Is this possible???

:twitch:

 

[sprintermike]

I have read that cleanings from ANY shrimp are rare in captivity.
In the several years I have had cleaner shrimps, I only once saw it cleaning a fish, and that was after lights out. I had to do a double take because I didn't believe it.

 

[snorvich]

Actually, I see cleaning behavior in all my tanks multiple times per day. But never from a pistol shrimp.

 

[rjh5791]

Very interesting, my pistol shrimp hated any fish that came near its cave.

 

[HorseSea]

Snorvich I have a lemonpeel angel that spends most of its time alternating between scarlet shrimp and cleaner shrimp for a clean until they get fed up and push it away after a few cleans from each.

Daragh

 

[snorvich]

Snorvich I have a lemonpeel angel that spends most of its time alternating between scarlet shrimp and cleaner shrimp for a clean until they get fed up and push it away after a few cleans from each.

Daragh

thanks. my fish use normal cleaners all the time but what was remarkable to me was a pistol shrimp cleaning.