How big do sexy shrimp get?

[reefyredfish]

I've seen one at the LFS and it was about 1/4". I've checked
the usual online stores and some say up to 1 1/2" but some
say 1/4" to 1/2". So how big do they get? I would like to add
one and think he would love my GBTA, however I don't want to
feed him to my mandarin goby. Which is the only fish I have that
I think would eat him if he's too small. So I would like to get one
an inch big if they get this big, I just don't know if they do.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

I've never had one get any bigger than 1/2"-3/4".

 

[harleychic]

A sexy shrimp would be too big for a mandarin to eat, even a small one.

 

[Pulp Fishin]

Mine never got much bigger then 1/2".

 

[snorvich]

1/2 of a inch. Mandarins are not gobies, they are Dragonets. In any case they do not eat sexy shrimp.

 

[Elysia]

You have a BTA w/ a mandarin? Forgive my ignorance, I'm unfamiliar w/ the specifics of the anemones, but I thought that anemones and mandarins were not recommended as tankmates?

 

[snorvich]

Well carpet anemones are killers of mandarins (and other fish) but BTA? I have never kept one so I cannot say.

 

[reefyredfish]

Yea I have 2 GBTA's and a nice size mandarin. They've been happy for several
months now. So nobodies seen a sexy shrimp bigger than 1/2" to 3/4"?

 

[Pulp Fishin]

no I have 6 and the biggest one is a hare bigger then the smallest.

 

[pandarider007]

mine is about an inch