Cleaner shrimps ate my rhodactis

[janet]

It sounds like a trashy UK newspaper headline... but it's true! I bought a rock covered in beautiful green rhodactis. My cleaner shrimps have eaten the biggest one on there and are now starting on the smaller ones! That's the most expensive fish food I have ever bought!
:squigglemouth:
Janet

 

[Reef lvr]

Mabey you got camel shrimp instead of cleaners. Got a pic of them?

 

[gflat65]

I've had peppermints eat rock anemones, so it's not entirely unthinkable. I bought a number of them in an effort to eradicate Majano's and Tulip anemones and put them in a 120. No feeding at all for a month or two. They destroyed all of the Majano's and Tulips, then turned on my rock anemones (I wanted to keep those). I've not heard of cleaners doing this, but a good many other shrimps will pick at LPS, etc.