Hello all, I juust acquired a coral banded shrimp for my 60 gl mixed reef for a sick Niger Trigger of mine. I understand that this shrimp can be semi-aggressive but I would like to know if anyone has had problems keeping their cleaning crew alive with such a cleaner shrimp on the prowl??
Coral Banded Shrimp
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Tennyson
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It sounds like you bought the Coral Banded Shrimp to clean your sick fish, if this is true, sorry, Coral Banded Shrimp will not clean fish.
You should have no problems with a Coral Banded Shrimp in that size tank with other shrimp.
I have a Large Coral Banded Shrimp in a 46 with these shrimp:
1. 2 Skunk Cleaners
2. 2 Sexy, Anemone and Urocaridella Shrimp (6 total)
3. 1 Fire Shrimp
4. 1 Peppermint
So there should be no problem keeping a Coral Banded Shrimp with any other shrimp in your tank.
The only problem is they will aggressively chase or scare away any shrimp/crab/fish that gets close to it. or if they are hungry, they will try to grab a small shrimp but they have never succeeded.
You should have no problems with a Coral Banded Shrimp in that size tank with other shrimp.
I have a Large Coral Banded Shrimp in a 46 with these shrimp:
1. 2 Skunk Cleaners
2. 2 Sexy, Anemone and Urocaridella Shrimp (6 total)
3. 1 Fire Shrimp
4. 1 Peppermint
So there should be no problem keeping a Coral Banded Shrimp with any other shrimp in your tank.
The only problem is they will aggressively chase or scare away any shrimp/crab/fish that gets close to it. or if they are hungry, they will try to grab a small shrimp but they have never succeeded.
ducklabdad
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I have a coral banded that I have had for about 5 months now. He has been a lot of fun in the tank, but he has eaten the following (all confimed) visually.
I clown goby.
3 pepermint shirimp
Several red-leg hermit crabs,
otherwise he is a peacefull tankmate to my "menagerie" but I have been curious as to why he has not seemed to bother any of the Blue leg hermits, but when he gets after a red-leg he tears them apart pulling them apart a piece at a time!!
I clown goby.
3 pepermint shirimp
Several red-leg hermit crabs,
otherwise he is a peacefull tankmate to my "menagerie" but I have been curious as to why he has not seemed to bother any of the Blue leg hermits, but when he gets after a red-leg he tears them apart pulling them apart a piece at a time!!
andygb54303
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i have one and although that has grown quite large. He occasionally chases fish but its never gotten one and i doubt he could do much damage. I also have a pistol shrimp in the tank and they live near eachother but have learned to live with one another. i dont think you will have a problem but i never heard of it cleaning fish.
I have a rather large CBS in a 75g and I have seen him go after smaller shrimp. I started out with 4 peppermints and now I only have 2. I have no doubt it was the CBS. He has been after them for a long time. He also likes to after my smaller fish but they stay away from him. He mostly comes out at night so they have to be careful.
I have had two in my 55 for over four years now. They have hunted down and killed the following:
2 o. clowns
1. p. clown
2 cleaner shrimp
several snails and hermit crabs (although the zebra hermits seem to be left alone while blue and red legged ones tend to go missing...)
One died about a year ago and I have thought about taking the other out several times...but my kids really like it and i still think it is cool too....
one point though: like Tennyson mentioned...these are not the kind caring shrimp that clean parasites off of ailing fish..if that is what you want/need...go with the scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
2 o. clowns
1. p. clown
2 cleaner shrimp
several snails and hermit crabs (although the zebra hermits seem to be left alone while blue and red legged ones tend to go missing...)
One died about a year ago and I have thought about taking the other out several times...but my kids really like it and i still think it is cool too....
one point though: like Tennyson mentioned...these are not the kind caring shrimp that clean parasites off of ailing fish..if that is what you want/need...go with the scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
clownFish1313
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I had a large one eat a fish a pepermint and some cuc
I have a CBS in my 14 gal. nano (yes i know its too small for him, he'll be in my 30 gal. soon!!). He's not aggressive toward my Sexy Dancing Shrimp, but he does make threatening gestures towards my black clowns. What I do know, is that he completely eradicated my slug population. I used to have several dozen of those little guys crawling everywhere, now I do not see any !!! I actually watched him devour one of my big slugs, so I know its him. Coral Banded Shrimp are awsome for bristle worm control, but they do eat anything meaty and small. That includes slugs, snails, small crabs and other small inverts. Keep an eye on him, and make sure he's well fed, and you won't have any problems.
I just wish mine would eat more bristle worms. He manages to go after many other things. I have some rather large bristles. You would think he would be happy with those rather large worms. oh well. They are pretty cool looking as AnimaliA stated. My two smaller shrimp still remain in hiding.
