GBTA ate cleaner shrimp?

[fambrough]

I've kept both, but not together. Acclimated a clean shrimp last night. It's gone this morning. Is the BTA to blame? I have no other known predators in the tank.

Just wondered if i gave the amenome a live, expensive meal?

Thanks,
Ben

 

[haulme]

i dont think shrimps are very meaty and ime btas like meaty foods. maybe it just died and your cleanup crew got to work.

 

[GSMguy]

my long tentacled loved shrimp. yes they are meaty their tail is all meat ever had lobster,, better yet foolio ever had shrimp
lol

 

[rachelcb80]

I just got my first BTA this weekend so I'm a total newbie to them but I've seen it twice now trying to pull in a hermit crab that got to close. I surely wouldn't be surprised if yours ate your cleaner shrimp.

Rachel

 

[Tigger240]

FWIW - cleaners and condi have a symbosis with eachother and my two were like long lost pals - never leaving eachother. my condi died, and my cleaner and gbta get along well on the same rock.

 

[Reef4Fun]

I dont know how big your tank is, but I have a 120 and I have 3 shrimp, a cleaner and 2 peppermints, and they disapear all the time, I go days without seeing them. It may just be hidden really well, especially if you have a large tank.

 

[bureau13]

My cleaner dances around, and sometimes over, my BTA and seems completly unfazed. BTAs really aren't that sticky, I kind of doubt he's to blame. What fish are in there?