Cleaner Shrimp Aggression - Chasing my wrasse

[chipchipbro]

hey guys

did you ever see your cleaner shrimp chasing a fish? I mean, the shrimp was in the tank all alone for 2.5 months.. now i did add a pink streaked wrasse and the shrimp is always chasing the wrasse when seeing him.

Is that a normal behaviour and will that ever be less? I mean.. i dont want my pink streaked to be stressed all the time haha..

My other cleaners never chases any fish.. but yeah.. there were always more than just one fish usually.

 

[homer1475]

Normal behavior. They are cleaners by nature, being alone it was probably lost in it's duties. Now that there is a host to clean, it's chasing it wanting to clean it.

Get a couple more fish, and it will probably leave it alone. You know give the guy something to do.


Ever see a video of the ocean where many of these will "set up shop" at an area of the reef where many will form a "swim through" cleaning station? The fish(many carnivores right along with their prey) will actually line up waiting to be cleaned.

 

[chipchipbro]

y

Normal behavior. They are cleaners by nature, being alone it was probably lost in it's duties. Now that there is a host to clean, it's chasing it wanting to clean it.

Get a couple more fish, and it will probably leave it alone. You know give the guy something to do.


Ever see a video of the ocean where many of these will "set up shop" at an area of the reef where many will form a "swim through" cleaning station? The fish(many carnivores right along with their prey) will actually line up waiting to be cleaned.

yeah.. i will def. get some more fish.. well, my wife wants a pair of clowns but I want to skip that as I have had clowns for years..

But then its ok, I mean the wrasse can easily dodge the aggression and hide somewhere.. the cleaner never wins this battle.

I gotta watch that video.. i guess i can find something on yt?

 

[homer1475]

Yeah forget the actual video, but yes it was on youtube. Someone linked it here a few years back.

Back when I was setting up my biocube, only had one wrasse(tanaka's pygmy), and one cleaner, the cleaner would annoy the heck out of the poor wrasse. When I added more fish, the shrimp calmed down on the wrasse.