Why is my coral banded shrimp such a ..

smp

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bastard?!!!

He attacks EVERYTHING.
I think he killed my emerald crab some time ago and I'm more and more sure of it all the time.
I put my hand in the tank .. pinch pinch!!
I feed my anemone .. pinch pinch (the anemone, he steals shrimp from it, I know this is normal)
Fish gets too close .. pinch pinch!!
Introduced a serpent star the other night .. pinch pinch!!

He runs around owning the tank!
If he wasn't so damned cool I would sell him. Stupid Jacque.
Is his behaviour normal?
 
I've had one for four years, and find it amusing at feeding time when he tries to catch fish. I havn't noticed him being destructive or killing anything.
 
They get big, and agressiveness is their behavior.
I had one in a 10 gallon tank. He really didn't go after any fish, but if you put your hands in the tank to rearrange rocks or a coral, i had to watch my hands.. pinch pinch.
Although the neat thing was that when I fed him pellet food he'd always grab it out of my hands... lol go figure.
Stewie
 
I had learned my lesson with them and now my coral banded shrimp is banished into a smaller tank with all the "bad boys" who ate my inverts and polyps.
 
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