can skunk cleaner shrimp bring disease into the tank?

[CaptNemo]

Hello everyone,

I have been wanting a pair of Skunk cleaner shrimps for my 10 gallons tank. There is a pair of true perc and two hermit crab in there so far. There will be no more inverts or fish add to the system after these shrimps. My only concern is that do shrimp transmit disease to fish?. I am not going to put the shrimp in quarantine or anything like that. I will just buy them and put them in the tank after acclimation. I really worry that when i put the shrimps in the tank, it will brings with it diseases from outside into my tank and kill my clowns.

I used to have a pair of gold stripe maroon, after adding another damsel into the tank, my clowns ended up getting the disease from the damsel. Needless to say, all three of them ended up dead. It took me so long to restart this tank. That's why i am really worry when adding another fish or invert into the tank.

If anyone know the answer to this, please let me know..

thanks in advance.

 

[CHAOSTACTICS]

not typically

 

[Freed]

ANYTHING wet can carry disease into any tank. That's why you should QT anything wet you plan on putting in your main tank. Although ich does not feed off of shrimp, it feeds on fish, there could be ich in the water that the shrimp is in which would then infect your tank but you say you are going to dump it right in so why are you asking?

 

[dc]

Well it never hurts to be careful, especially if you've went through it before.