Yellow Tang ate my fire shrimp

[OffRoad322]

Woke up this morning to bits and pieces of my fire shrimp in my tank. I just added a yellow tang a few days ago.

Has anyone heard of tangs attacking fire shrimp/cleaner shrimp? What can I do to not have this happen again if I add another fire shrimp...my kids and wife really liked the shrimp.

Am I underfeeding the yellow tang? I hang 1/2 a sheet of nori every day and feed mysis shrimp once a day. I'm using 1 cube of mysis or brine shrimp a day...just have two small clownfish and the tang right now.


Thank you!

 

[Pslreefer]

No hermits or other fish/ invertebrates in the tank?

 

[OffRoad322]

Pslreefer,
Yes an Emerald Green Crab, a few hermits and 6 or 7 snails (3 large Turbo's). Other than that just the two clowns and the tang at the moment.

 

[ca1ore]

You sure it's the shrimp and not just a molt? Would be unusual for a yellow tang to eat a fire shrimp.

 

[OffRoad322]

You sure it's the shrimp and not just a molt? Would be unusual for a yellow tang to eat a fire shrimp.

I thought it was molt, but I've looked everywhere in the tank and found a piece of his body.

What else would have eaten the fire shrimp?

 

[OffRoad322]

Could it have been my emerald crab?

 

[m0nkie]

I have never seen a yellow tang go for live shrimps. However there's a chance the shrimp died during molting and fish would pick at it after

 

[nereefpat]

You sure it's the shrimp and not just a molt? Would be unusual for a yellow tang to eat a fire shrimp.

either this...

I have never seen a yellow tang go for live shrimps. However there's a chance the shrimp died during molting and fish would pick at it after

or possibly this.