Mystery Wrasse Question

[fstar25]

Those of you with wrasse experience and especially mystery wrasse experience please give me some advice.

My mystery wrasse ate hermit crab that got kicked out of his home by another hermit crab. I thought this was just opportunistic hunting. Well today, he killed and ate my peppermint shrimp. The PS is bigger than he is. now my crabs and him are feasting on fresh shrimp. I truly P.O.ed because the peppermint shrimp was the first purchase I made. My question is this:

Now that the mystery wrasse has the taste for live shrimp, are my cleaner shrimp and blood shrimp in trouble?

Thank you.

 

[UtahReefer]

I have seen them eat all three types of shrimp you are refering to
The fish is worth it to me though

 

[Guygettnby]

my mystery wrasse lived with my coral banded shrimp and cleaner shrimp for about a year with no problems. so i decided to get a fire shrimp one day wich was only $10 and as soon as i floated the bag the wrasse tried to get it thru the bag. when i finally let it go in the tank he tried to eat it rather quickly. i got the shrimp out and put it in a floating container for almost a month thinking if they lived next to each other that long they should be fine. i mean the other 2 shrimp were fine with him. so after a month and the fire shrimp even molted i finally released him into the tank again. this time there was no saving him.

so long story short any shrimp i introduced after the mystery wrasse never had a chance in the world. beyond that he was a model citizen. he never bothered anything else in the tank.