Do shrimp nip fins?

[OrangeKoi]

Here is a picture of my fish, Steve (the guy with stripes),and the cleaner shrimp.

Steve is the only fish. He was fine yesterday. Tonight he has a chunk missing out of his back fin.

Do shrimp eat these guys? He is big and does chase him. Is it unsafe?

 

[stykthyn]

I am sure that given the opportunity a shrimp will nip fins, but I dont think you clown has anything to worry about. that clown is much stronger than the shrimp and the shrimp doesnt have any claws like a coral banded does.

 

[jdieck]

Remember that those shrimps like cleaning fish, they try to atract them by waving their long "wiskers" If they fail to atract them they try to chase them.
Just in case insure that your shrimps are well fed. I use some long twizers to fed mine small pieces (Abut 1/4" cube) of raw fish or raw shrimp from the supermarket.

 

[thor32766]

never seen that before.

 

[jdieck]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8057520#post8057520 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by thor32766
never seen that before.

In my tank they had customers waiting in line.
The fish will aproach the shrimp the shrimp jump on the fish and start picking and pocking around for small parasites or loose skin, fish even open their gills and mouth so they could pock in there too.

 

[OrangeKoi]

That happened the first day. There's only one fish. But thanks for all the input. I'll remember to keep giving him his "share" of silversides even though my anemone has died.