Cleaner Shrimp NOT cleaning fish

[Flamehawk365]

I didn't know the proper place for this thread... thought I'd start here. Sorry if its in the wrong section of this forum

I bought 3 cleaner shrimp... the fish are basically laying down in front of the cleaner shrimp. The cleaner shrimp just turn away.

Any idea why they're not cleaning???

 

[DanInSD]

Well, if they're mantis shrimp, I guess that would explain it!

Try getting some spearers, they'll clean your fish right up!!

 

[30mini]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8420148#post8420148 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DanInSD
Well, if they're mantis shrimp, I guess that would explain it!

Try getting some spearers, they'll clean your fish right up!!

LOL!!! That's some funny s*it right there!!
But, seriously, don't listen to Dan... your posting in the wrong forum. Try the "Other Inverts" forum! This one is dedicated to the mantis, not the cleaner!

 

[DanInSD]

I couldn't resist!! Was that bad karma?

For the record, I have three cleaner shrimp in my reef (along with a pistol/goby pair). The shrimp are skunk cleaners and are eager to do their "cleaning thang". The fish tend to run away from the harassment, though.

 

[Uriel]

I have a peppermint that was purchased to eat aiptasia...he doesn't (I know that only half of them do, it was a gamble).
Now I have a MASSIVE peppermint shrimp hanging out. At least he eats leftover food that the fish don't get to.



On a similar note of mantis/fish.

I have offered to lend one of my P cilata out to local guys to get rid of those pesky damsels that they added for cycling. Nobody was amused quite as much as I was.




-Uriel

 

[DanInSD]

I prefer adding a P. volitans to get rid of the "pesky damsels"

 

[Gonodactylus]

There are cleaner shrimp that live in the burrows of Lysiosquillina maculata and clean them.

Roy