Cleaner Shrimp vs. Anemone

Reggae Fish

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Well, my anemone has been doing awesome (thanks doc) and it eats well and is just beautiful...However, when I just fed it, one of the cleaner shrimps ATTACKED the anemone...The anemone was closed up with the silverside in it but the shrimp was digging and digging and digging...Well obviously, I ran and got something to get the shrimp away but it looks like it hurt the anemone...Is this possible? Any suggestions going forward besides feeding a bit on the other side of the tank to the shrimp first...Anyone else have this problem?
 
i had a shrimp or hermit dig into one of my open brains after feeding it a silverside. the brain suffered a pretty massive hole. still dont know if it will fully recover. This happened probably 3 months ago. now i feed everything else before attempting to spot feed corals/anemones.
 
I always feed my anemone last. I have two cleaner shrimp that always hang around in the same area as the anemone, but have always left it alone.
 
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