coral banded shrimp compatibility

[Runfrumu]

I have a coral banded shrimp and I often here that you really cant put any other shrimps in such as peppermints and other smaller ones in with him or he will kill them. Is this always the case, he doesnt seem to bother anything and has never messed with any of the snails or hermits I have.

 

[philter4]

I keep several sp of Stenopus, and I keep them in pairs, always collected as pairs, I've never tried to pair them up. I also keep them with several other sp of shrimp, for instance in one tank I have a Stenopus pyrsonotus with a hawaiian harlequin shrimp, a pair of atlantic scarlet lady cleaners, several pedersons cleaners, a thor or sexy shrimp, a pair of bumble bee shrimp and a bunch of assorted but unusual hermit crabs. I think that you'll be fine as long as you don't put any other coral banded or other Stenopus in the same tank. One of my dive partners did keep a pair of regular coral banded and a pair of goldens, his tank was 150 gal with about 250 pounds of live rock and a full live coral reef. There was a lot of hiding places and they got along until he moved and he hasn't re set up the tank.

 

[Guygettnby]

i have had a coral banded shrimp in my reef tank with several differnt kinds of shrimps without ever having a problem personaly.

1 monkey shrimp, 3 pepermint shrimp, coral banded shrimp, fire shrimp. but my buddy seems to swear that his coral banded shrimp ate his pepermint shrimp... so i think so people are gonna have differnt opinions on this subject.

 

[Tennyson]

I have a coral banded shrimp in a 46 gallon with my 2 glass anemone shrimp, 2 skunk cleaners, 2 peppermints. As long as they are in a big enough tank, I'd say 20-30 gallons or larger, they should be OK, because the other shrimp have room to avoid the Coral Banded. But you will notice that the Corals Banded shrimp will try to eat your other shrimp, it happens all the time in my 46 gal, but the other shrimp are able to avoid it.

 

[langel]

What about a coral banded shrimp and a cleaner shrimp?

 

[Tennyson]

Yeah, they should be ok, as long as the tank is 20-30 gallons or larger because then they both have their own territories. I have a 46 gallon, my coral banded likes the back, my other shrimp roam all over and venture into his territory, when that happens, the coral banded will try to attach them but never catches them, just scaring them away. But when they are hungry, they'll try to attach the shrimp they hate the most (in my case are the skunk cleaners) he'll go after them but it will give up after a while. So my suggestion is, the bigger the tank for a coral banded and other shrimp is better, and make sure they are well fed. Mine will eat live earthworms, and frozen silversides and mysid shrimp, and it will even eat flake and pellets if its starving.

 

[langel]

Ok, thank you for sharing your experience. My tank is a 30 gallon and they already seem to have their own territories and the skunk cleaner is the man in charge.

 

[Tennyson]

glad to hear that! But you may notice some aggression, but that should be ok in a tank that size.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

yeah they should all be fine...just dont add another CBS...the bigger and likely original tenant will rip the legs off the new comer and await his grizzly death...seen it a couple times...

i have also seen pair CBS in a tank doing just fine with cleaners and blood/fire shrimp...