Do skunk cleaner shrimps eat bristle worms?

[RFC]

Just wondering if skunk cleaner shrimp eat bristle worms? I have a nice size fuji rock that had crawling with bristle worms but now that my cleaner shrimp hangs out on this rock I rarely see any bristle worms.


Regards

RFC

 

[bertoni]

They sometimes do. So the worms might have been dinner, or been scared into the rock.

 

[Ti]

I've never seen them kill anything to eat.

 

[Avi]

I doubt that they could ever catch a living, healthy, bristle worm. If it were dead or dying, they would probably take it.

 

[Petie]

I used to have a picture of my Skunk eating a live bristle worm but I don't know where it went. My largest Skunk has since eating three I've seen. It's weird to see for sure.

 

[bertoni]

I watched cleaners rip apart amphipods (peppermints, too), and a number of people have reported watching them eat bristleworms. Decapods tend not be be very picky about what they eat. There are exceptions, though, like harlequin shrimp.

 

[Ti]

I could see the eating a dead worm, but I can't imagine them as predators

 

[vibe7]

spider crab eats bristle and rock worms

 

[peasofme]

more likely the shrimp are eating the worms' food

 

[cloak]

I've never seen a cleaner shrimp eat a bristle worm before, and there's been plenty of times where they were both in the same vicinity. Bristle worms are pretty tough. I don't think a cleaner shrimp has enough strength in there tiny claws to rip the worms apart. I doubt they're eating the worms whole either. JMO.

 

[ExtremeTang]

Arrow crab works for me. They are cheaper than cleaner shrimp

 

[TankStudy]

My breeding pair of cleaner shrimps destroys pods by the hundreds, lol.

 

[HookedOnReefing]

Reviving an ancient post. But saw my skunk cleaner shrimp catch and destroy a small (2 inches) bristle worm.