Cleaner Shrimp stealing food from Anemone

[mrpenguin]

My cleaner shrimp has been hanging around my anemone and sometimes will even touch the anemone. Today i fed the anemone a small piece of shrimp and the cleaner shrimp climbed on top of the anemone and tried to take the shrimp out of its mouth ... the anemone already had a good hold on it and the cleaner shrimp was unsuccessful so i gave him his own little piece.

I was wondering how is it that the anemone does not eat the cleaner shrimp because he was walking all over him.

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[seafansar]

My cleaner shrimp can walk on my RBTA too. Feed the shrimp before you feed the anemone to stop the food stealing.

 

[K9Nurse911]

my cleaner shrimp, Mr. Wolf, does the same thing...I'm surprised he hasn't been eaten yet...but I also keep my nem well-fed to hopefully not have that happen...

- Andrea

 

[-BlackJack-]

same thing happened to me the first time I fed my GBTA a silverside minnow. So I devised Plan B for feeding:

I received a clip with suction cup when I bought a package of dried seaweed/algae sheets. This was I suppose for Tangs and other algae eaters to have the food source stay still for them. I don't have a Tang anymore, so I put some kite string on the clip, and attach the tail end of a silverside minnow, drop it in and let the shrimp and a few hermits eat their fill while I'm prepping one for the anemone. This way the shrimp isn't hungry when the BTA gets his.