I have 2 cleaner shrimp that i have had in my 55g for a while now, and i have them trained to be hand fed, i also have 1 fire shrimp that has been in there for about 3 months now, i see him when he sees the pellets, but thats about it, i plan on upgrading to a 90g soon, and was wonderig if this is a sufficient amount of space for maybe a coral banded, and/or maybe another fire shrimp.
Coral banded and Cleaner shrimp.
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salt newbie01
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I have a CB, one cleaner shrimp and 2 pepp shrimp. So far so good. they have been together for several months. All the shrimp stay away from the CB. For that matter everything stays away from the CB!! He is not out very much. I still get to see him because I have left swimming room between the rocks. HTH
Jacksonbriggs
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I've had bad experiences with the coral banded shrimp. If they get kind of big I've seen them attack cleaner shrimp from time to time. Just from my experience.
DrChaos619
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i have a CB with banded with the dreaded nemesis arrow crab and they seem to steer clear of eachother. they've even been in close proximity to eachother and still havent done anything.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
IME large Stenopus will catch and kill any Lysmata they can grab.
Jeffrey Porter
Cradle Robber
i've got a huge female cb and she was in the tank over a year before i caught my lysmata. they are in my 75 and both get along fine. but it knows to get out of the cb's way. even my 16 inch eel is afraid of the cb.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
I've never seen it happen. Stenopus will "wave off" a fish that gets too close. The shrimp will likely pick on an unhealthy fish... but their bark is far worse than their bite (so to speak).
salt newbie01
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That is what I have noticed about my CB. He will "bow" up at anyone or anything, even my hand. But I have yet to se him do any damage to anything.
leadingangel
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Is it true CB shrimp eat fish?
Is it true CB shrimp eat fish?
Yes, it is true CB shrimps eat fish! Mine has grown rather large and has eaten one of my firefish, as well as, almost kill my hi fined red banded goby. He has become very aggressive. I am uber ****ed off at him! I just put him in isolation and am contemplating what to do with him. What do most people do with a bully shrimp/fish they no longer want?
Is it true CB shrimp eat fish?
Yes, it is true CB shrimps eat fish! Mine has grown rather large and has eaten one of my firefish, as well as, almost kill my hi fined red banded goby. He has become very aggressive. I am uber ****ed off at him! I just put him in isolation and am contemplating what to do with him. What do most people do with a bully shrimp/fish they no longer want?
falconut
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I think my CBS ate my Skunk Cleaner. I had the CBS for about 6 months and I just added a Skunk Cleaner about 2 weeks ago. They remainded on opposite sides of my 90, until on night I noticed the CBS on the Cleaners side. A couple of days after that the Cleaner dissapeared. I haven't seen the Cleaner for over a week now. Probably dead. It's possible that the Cleaner is still alive, especially since I have gone weeks without seeing my CBS. Then it would just pop out a night. But I doubt it, I don't believe Cleaners will hide like that, it used to stay out in the open.
