Who's the Terminator?

[Musicbabe]

3 weeks ago I added a juvenile emperator angel and a coral beauty angel to my tank. The next morning the emperator began doing the Angelina Jolie lap-dance in the face of my 3 cleaner shrimp - who were doing the "ho, hum, yawn - let me know when you're done" and refused to clean him. This week on Monday the smallest cleaner shrimp was "missing." Wednesday or Thursday the largest cleaner shrimp was "missing." This morning I saw the emperator tearing the leg off my remaining cleaner shrimp. I tapped the glass to stop him and realized that the shrimp was dead. My peppermint shrimp is fine, as is my fire shrimp. The fire shrimp is the only one interested in cleaning the emperator and will spend 3-4 hours per day on him. My water perameters are all good (nitrate a little high). Is the emperator the terminator? Has anyone had their angel eat their shrimp?

 

[adamsky27]

I personally have 2 shrimp with an Imperator (juvenile). A peppermint and a cleaner shrimp. It hasn't even thought about touching my shrimp, wish I could say the same for my RPE's! LOL

 

[owsi]

Wrasse's or shrimp on shrimp would be my guess. They could have been killed by other shrimp or just died and angel would eat carcus. You could have an angel that likes to kill them, but I doubt it.

 

[lovelylinda]

Yea, just because a fish has loose morals(Angelina Jolie lapdance) doesn't make them a murderer.

 

[cerreta]

hmm, but suspicious behavior is suspect. I guess OJ did not really do it then huh?

 

[lovelylinda]

LOL