Has anyone seen a coral banded shrimp kill fish

[Dtuck724]

I have a fairly large and aggressive cb shrimp who I have seen lunge at fish but I was wondering is it really capable of killing a fish. I have a tomato clown, algae blenny, and a royal gramma.

 

[bat21]

Yes. They kill fish.

 

[manny532]

I've seen them lunge at fish before but never actually kill a fish. Clown is pretty territorial and so is the royal gramma. If the algea blenny is a decent size I wouldn't worry too much. But just my two cents

 

[snorvich]

Yes. They kill fish.

They can kill fish. They may or may not be successful depending on fish species.

 

[MIKE NY]

As mentioned they will eat fish to survive if they don't get enough food. They are excellent scavengers and are a nocturnal hunter of small sleeping fish. I've had a few over the years and one large one I had took out a whole school of blue chromis before I actually saw it with a flashlight.

 

[arashsheikhpoor]

I have only had two and they occasionally do go after the fish. The fish though, are too big for him to actually do anything but I suppose if the fish Is really small he would have no problem catching and killing it.

 

[IowaReefer]

You should be fine with those fish. The lunging is usually a defensive move, not hunting. As stated before, they are more prone to hunt at night for sleeping fish - easier prey.

 

[Mr V]

I think it is misunderstand when we think they kill fishes. They do chase after the fish but hardly kill them. They may come after the sick or dead fishes, then we misunderstand, thinking that they kill the fish.

 

[Buldrhm]

I had one kill a clown goby.

 

[cloak]

CBS are kind of clumsy. While they may kill a fish given the chance, a healthy fish shouldn't have any problems whatsoever getting away from one IMO. I've picked up plenty of these things at the LFS with my bare hands and those claws they have are not that strong.

 

[Blitz99]

Yep... Maybe an hour after acclimating.... Maybe!!!!

 

[alton]

Okay you people are scaring me? I bought a pair because I thought they were safe, the only confrontation was when first introduced a cleaner shrimp came after the one and had his feelers trimmed up, that's it. Should I remove them into there own tank?

 

[cloak]

Yep... Maybe an hour after acclimating.... Maybe!!!!

Maybe the CBS was putting the Flame Angel out of his misery...

 

[ajespo85]

I had one kill a sleeping Cardinal before, and go after a Goby before. Luckily the Goby was fast. I removed mine a while ago, and will not be getting another anytime soon.

 

[arashsheikhpoor]

why dont you just replace with a small one? that way you wont really have a problem.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Why take the chance? There are many different species of shrimp for the reef tank to choose from, and others that are similar in appearance to this not so good of a reputation species. I wouldn't do it personally.

 

[bmrigs]

I had one that killed my new Royal Gramma the first night. It took him half the day to eat it and then discarded his head on the sand in a blatant sign of contempt.

 

[ThRoewer]

Why is everyone getting the monstrous Stenopus hispidus? There much nicer species that stay smaller. I have a pair of S. tenuirostris and they don't do anything to fish.

 

[Stevenliu9]

Yes, but only small or slow fish. Healthy, robust and larger fish wont fall prey to them that easily

 

[nikon187]

yes they do and also other shrimp sometimes ( cleaner, fire, peppermint )