Caught that stinking camelback!

[BigDaddyReefer]

I have had a camelback shrimp since i started my reef tank a year+ ago. The lfs assured me that it was reef safe. 1 year later and tons of knowledge gained, I basically talk circles around the clowns that masquerade as fish experts. They literally know nothing. Anyway, I noticed a week ago that my brand new rainbow polyps have died. Went to a much better lfs for these. They gave me new ones with a live stock guarantee.

After putting them in the tank, not more than an hour after lights out, I witness the camelback going to town on these new polyps, eats all of them.

The next week has been myself and a buddy, creating traps and finally catching this shrimp by our own hands with a net. It was fun to find out why so many of my corals had been looking chewed on.

And yes. Shrimps were harmed in the making if this post. Fed that sucker to the anemone.

 

[SantaMonica]

:O

Yikes

 

[NanaReefer]

Killing something for doing what is natural, not cool.

 

[invertinoob]

At least he fed it to the nem which seems kinda natural...:/ People us shrimp as live bait for fishing all of the time. I would rather have my corals, that I have spent a ton of time and money on, be safe rather than a 10 dollar shrimp. JMO

 

[jmardis]

At least he fed it to the nem which seems kinda natural...:/ People us shrimp as live bait for fishing all of the time. I would rather have my corals, that I have spent a ton of time and money on, be safe rather than a 10 dollar shrimp. JMO

+1

Agree shrimp are not thigh on the food chain. It is a bonus the hem got a snack.

 

[BigDaddyReefer]

Thanks for sticking up for me guys/gals... Nana reef, sorry if I have offended you. Thought it was better than flushing him things happen, I am not some cowboy driving thirty minutes to the lfs to return him. Also, I stepped on a spider today... He built a nice web in my garage.

 

[ChaliceLove]

Camels are to u and go

 

[Tahoe61]

A simple google search will provide first hand experience/examples that camel shrimp are not reef safe. I have had shrimp eat my expensive corals in the past, the shrimp were removed and placed in the sump. You can hardly blame the shrimp for eating just because it ate what was available. Many inverts will become opportunistic feeders, it's not a calculated way to irritate you on their part, just a means of survival. Perhaps show a little more compassion next time for the animals you choose to care for, or consider another hobby.

 

[BigDaddyReefer]

Tahoe, like I have already addressed.... The shrimp was sold to me by an evil LFS near my house. I relied on them for information when starting my tank. You see, when I started the tank, i thought that these people were more knowledgable than I was... I guess the whole owning a giant store filled with corals and fish thing was enough to trick me. I never google searched it. These people sold me thousands of dollars worth of junky products that I ended up having to replace.

Over the last 6 months, I lost a few hundred bucks worth of corals. Thought maybe I was doing something wrong. Then that one fateful night, I saw it was the Shrimp.

I thought feeding the shrimp to the anemone was much more compassionate than say, throwing him away. My sump is not equipped for him.

Seriously, you sound like one those people from PETA. How can you talk about compassion while stocking a tank full of wild creatures harvested from the Ocean. I eat shrimp often, they don't cross my mind as an animal with thoughts and feelings. Have you ever eaten shrimp? Do you eat beef?
Ever eaten fish from the ocean?
Where do you draw the line?

It's not like I pulled him out, dumped gas on him and watched him burn....

 

[dankreef]

Hahaha I laughed at the shrimps were harmed. I know that feeling. Had that issue with the smartest chromie in the world. It feels so good when you finally win!

 

[Tahoe61]

Perhaps I should have been more diplomatic.

I chased Peppermint shrimp for a month after they decided to eat every one of my expensive Maxi-mini anemones. Did I consider them devils spawn, yup and still do. Would I have felt some type of conquest or need to boast about the shrimps demise nope.

 

[BigDaddyReefer]

Thanks for clarifying Tahoe.. This was my biggest revelation and toughest challenge as a reefer. I was excited to share as I had thought this task would be impossible without completely deconstructing a 10,000 dollar tank. Excuse my excitement