sexy shrimp reef safe?

[Tabasco]

Hello there,

I am hoping to hear from people with experience with sexy shrimp in reef tanks. I always thought they were reef safe and they had a firm place in my stock list, but I recently read a thread where they ate some zoas. Is this common or more of an exception? Zoas & Palys were also firmly in the stock list.

Thanks!

 

[Tabasco]

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[treylane]

There are cases of nearly all types of crabs/shrimps developing a taste for corals in our tanks. They're always opportunistic, and even more so if they're hungry.

Sexy shrimps are usually perfectly reef safe, very fun to watch and very hardy.

 

[mscarpena]

I agree with Trey, but I stay away from all shrimp because they always seem to cause me issues.

 

[Tabasco]

Ok thanks! Anyone with first hand experience of their sexys being model citizens or little terrors?

 

[Kataro]

I got 3 sexy shrimps. They're always hanging around my ricordea garden. I dont see them bothering anything.. I dont feed them directly either, they just grab whatever they can

 

[Durbelethwen]

I also have a group of three sexy shrimp. The mostly hang out around my flower leather soft coral (the only coral in the tank) and they do not seem to bother it. I give them each a small piece of food every night because there are not any other animals that they need to clean up for.

 

[AaronM]

My sexy is awesome. Hangs out in and around my bta, usually wiggling his face and tail, not quite in time with nem, but close. Safe ime.

 

[Dre59]

I don't know about everybody else"¦ But anything with the word "œsexy" is dangerous :lolspin:

 

[NEK-ap24]

I lost a couple sexy shrimp to something in my tank, and miss them dearly. I never had them cause any problems, they loved to hang around and shack their moneymakers around my frogspawn. My 2 never picked at anything(ignored zoas altogether), except maybe sharing some mysis stuck on the frogspawn, but it didn't injure the frogspawn in the taking.

I haven't replaced them yet, because I don't know what got them...so I don't want to feed it more.

 

[MikeandNicole]

I have 4 sexy shrimp in a 12g nano with some mixed corals and have never seen a problem. They hang our on favia and dendros and just do their thing. I like them a lot.

 

[Royalty86]

I have two that host my carpet anemone along with two anemone crabs they all seem to be very good inverts and this is coming from a guy that has 2 sexy shrimp 1 fire shrimp 1 cleaner shrimp 1 boxer shrimp and 6 peppermint shrimp in a 72 bow they all get along. I'm going to add 4 more sexy to host my RBTA GBTA BTA if it gets out of control then I'll add then to my 6.5 Fluval Edge RR where I'm planning to adding 4 sexy shrimp 4 Pom pom Crabs and 2 Zebra thorn crab very cool little crab they host Urchin's. I was told from a few people that it really doesn't matter how many invert you add to your tank as long as the system has enough food to sub-stain them all.