Cleaner Shrimp Diet

[msfishgirl]

I recently purchased 2 peppermint shrimp. They lasted all of about 5 minutes, and my cleaner shrimp had themselves an expensive snack.

Do cleaner shrimp normally feast on peppermint shrimp?

 

[olemiss reb]

Shrimp are scavengers. If it is dead, they will eat it.

 

[msfishgirl]

Thank you, but mine were alive and well. The cleaner actually held it down, and started plucking the eyeballs out. From there, it was downhill