Echidna nebulosa in reef tank
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HI:
Thanks for the question.
I don't have any direct experience keeping these two together. I would guess that cleaners are fine w/ fish.....as long as... the fish are brought into the cleaner enviroment and the cleaner has set up a cleaning station. If you add a cleaner shrimp to a tank w/ an established eel and the shrimp is wandering around the tank looking for food, my guess is the eel would eat them.
This is different than adding an eeel to a tank w/ established shrimp.
My case in point is my lions tank. i have never added cleaner fish or shrimp to my tank and many of my lions are many yrs old-ergo they have never seen or used cleaners in the wild. When i did try to add a cleaner shrimp, the lions went and immediately tried to eat them.
Thanks for the question.
I don't have any direct experience keeping these two together. I would guess that cleaners are fine w/ fish.....as long as... the fish are brought into the cleaner enviroment and the cleaner has set up a cleaning station. If you add a cleaner shrimp to a tank w/ an established eel and the shrimp is wandering around the tank looking for food, my guess is the eel would eat them.
This is different than adding an eeel to a tank w/ established shrimp.
My case in point is my lions tank. i have never added cleaner fish or shrimp to my tank and many of my lions are many yrs old-ergo they have never seen or used cleaners in the wild. When i did try to add a cleaner shrimp, the lions went and immediately tried to eat them.
so did you actually see him eat the shrimp?
I ask becuz in my experience these shrimp will sometimes die in the rockwork and you can blame him for it.
Second, I wouldn't introduce any more shrimp w/ this eel. My guess is he knows there for food.
Again the only way i would introduce an eel w/ a shrimp, is if the shrimp is in an established cleaning station and is servicing other fish and then the eel sees this arrangement.
Why do you need a shrimp in w/ the eel?
I ask becuz in my experience these shrimp will sometimes die in the rockwork and you can blame him for it.
Second, I wouldn't introduce any more shrimp w/ this eel. My guess is he knows there for food.
Again the only way i would introduce an eel w/ a shrimp, is if the shrimp is in an established cleaning station and is servicing other fish and then the eel sees this arrangement.
Why do you need a shrimp in w/ the eel?
