Coral banded shrimp

[EvilE]

are they reef safe? I was gonna buy a couple to hopefully eat some bristleworms that I suspect are eating my corals.

 

[ACBlinky]

Reef safe, yes, though they can sometimes be aggressive towards other shrimp. Unless you have a mated pair, you can only keep one CBS per tank - two that are unmated will often fight to the death.

 

[WeMa]

i have seen Banded Coral Shrimp with a lobster, blood shrimp and cleaner shrinmp in a reef tank with no problems, but i have seen one in a tank by itself because it would attack everything. Make sure you have plenty of hiding spots and in general a large tank if you want it with more things.

 

[phurst]

I had a mated pair in my 120. They never bothered my skunk cleaner, but made short work of my peppermints. I ultimately got rid of them because they kept trying to eat my chromis and took a chunk out of my coral beauty. I kept them well fed, they were just surley.

 

[invertaman]

They will eat your snails.

 

[H2OLUVSME]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11086343#post11086343 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EvilE
are they reef safe? I was gonna buy a couple to hopefully eat some bristleworms that I suspect are eating my corals.

Ive had differing ones. With all things reef, it depends on the tank and the individual shrimp's personality, as well as the personalities of the other inverts its kepts with.

I keep one right now with a pistol shrimp. I have kept them in the past with cleaner and blood shrimp as well as emerald and porcelain crabs. The only violence I ever saw was towards an arrow crab while the female (of my mated pair) was carrying eggs.

FWIW though, bristle worms arent eating your corals unless they are allready dead/dieing. They are scavengers only, and can only hunt food that they smell, which is usually dead or dieing flesh and left over fish food.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11088943#post11088943 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by invertaman
They will eat your snails.

In the 4 years Ive been keeping CBS Ive never seen one attack or eat a snail. I wouldnt put it past one to steal a dead one from the grips of a hermit, but Ive never seen that happen either.

 

[stingythingy45]

Definitely don't eat snails.
I've had one for 2 1/2 months now and it's never touched a coral or snails.She's very hardy and molts biweekly.