Coral Banded Shrimp safe or harassing?

Hamza Hamid · Dec 8, 2018

I planning to introduce 1 coral banded shrimp in my 20G reef tank. Softies and LPS only tank with 2 clowns and 1 orchid dottyback fish. (Currently tank is very peaceful)

1. Are they reef safe and peaceful?
2. I already have 1 cleaner shrimp and 1 Blood red fire shrimp and 3 sexy shrimps is it OK to introduce coral banded shrimp? or she might harass my sexy or other shrimps or corals?
3. In any way can i go wrong with coral banded shrimp?

My tank link as below

James M · Dec 8, 2018

Yes they are reef safe. Semi aggressive
IMO I wouldn’t add one because you have a lot of shrimp for a 20

Hamza Hamid · Dec 8, 2018

James M said:
Yes they are reef safe. Semi aggressive
IMO I wouldn’t add one because you have a lot of shrimp for a 20

I see.. I feel it will harass my sexy shrimps for sure also may fight with other shrimps.

James M · Dec 8, 2018

Hamza Hamid said:
I see.. I feel it will harass my sexy shrimps for sure also may fight with other shrimps.

There also may be issues with other shrimp. What type of snails were on your glass ?

Hamza Hamid · Dec 8, 2018

James M said:
There also may be issues with other shrimp. What type of snails were on your glass ?

thats trochus snail.

fermentedhiker · Dec 8, 2018

Coral banded shrimp can be aggressive especially with other shrimp. IMO your sexy shrimp would be in danger of being eaten not just harassed. If you really like them check out the blue ones. Different species that's about half as big so much less likely to be a problem.

James M · Dec 8, 2018

Hamza Hamid said:
thats trochus snail.

Look very different than mine

Cthulukelele · Dec 8, 2018

James M said:
Look very different than mine

I'm 90% sure it's a nassarius snail. Looks exactly like mine do when they get up on the glass

Hamza Hamid · Dec 8, 2018

fermentedhiker said:
Coral banded shrimp can be aggressive especially with other shrimp. IMO your sexy shrimp would be in danger of being eaten not just harassed. If you really like them check out the blue ones. Different species that's about half as big so much less likely to be a problem.

U mean to say blue coral banded shrimp?
So blue onces are not aggressive?
Same as pic attached?

Hamza Hamid · Dec 8, 2018

James M said:
Look very different than mine

may b yours is turbo snail... share pics please.

Hamza Hamid · Dec 8, 2018

Cthulukelele said:
I'm 90% sure it's a nassarius snail. Looks exactly like mine do when they get up on the glass

ya may b your pointing to my nassarius snail. I have a lot of nassarius and Trochus snails. Only 2 variety. So may b this or that.

fermentedhiker · Dec 8, 2018

Hamza Hamid said:
U mean to say blue coral banded shrimp?
So blue onces are not aggressive?
Same as pic attached?

Yes those are the ones. Much more timid IME and they top out around 1.5 inches instead of 3. They are still a boxer style shrimp so I wouldn't consider them completely harmless to smaller shrimp like sexy but much safer I think.

cracker · Dec 8, 2018

Very nice & peaceful tank .
I had a banded shrimp it was a little rowdy.

Hamza Hamid · Dec 8, 2018

fermentedhiker said:
Yes those are the ones. Much more timid IME and they top out around 1.5 inches instead of 3. They are still a boxer style shrimp so I wouldn't consider them completely harmless to smaller shrimp like sexy but much safer I think.

Great i will look into it.

67chevellemalibu2 · Dec 10, 2018

I have a coral Banded and two fire shrimp. Haven’t any issues. I like the blue one. It’s looks better.

Hamza Hamid · Dec 10, 2018

67chevellemalibu2 said:
I have a coral Banded and two fire shrimp. Haven’t any issues. I like the blue one. It’s looks better.

what about mixing with sexy shirmp?

Sabbath22 · Dec 11, 2018

I have a coral banded shrimp and it does,nt bother any corals besides walking on them! I think your sexy shrimp would become a expensive meal for it,fire shrimp might be to big for coral banded to mess with. My coral beauty tried messing with him one time,learned her lesson.People will ask what does he eat,my reply what does,nt he eat!!

Captain Quint · Dec 11, 2018

I just snapped a couple of pics of my Gold Coral Banded Shrimp.

The Gold Coral Banded Shrimp which doesn't bother 2 Skunks and a Peppermint. It does, however, have a cleaning relationship with my Diamond Goby. It's funny to see it partially inside the Diamonds mouth from time to time.

Hamza Hamid · Dec 11, 2018

Captain Quint said:
I just snapped a couple of pics of my Gold Coral Banded Shrimp.

The Gold Coral Banded Shrimp which doesn't bother 2 Skunks and a Peppermint. It does, however, have a cleaning relationship with my Diamond Goby. It's funny to see it partially inside the Diamonds mouth from time to time.

I see... So gold CBS and Blue CBS and normal CBS they are 3 types if i am not wrong?

Captain Quint · Dec 11, 2018

Hamza Hamid said:
I see... So gold CBS and Blue CBS and normal CBS they are 3 types if i am not wrong?

Actually 4 but they are decapods, not a true shrimp as we generally think to be. You have the Regular (Stenopus hispidus), Yellow (Steponus cyanoscelis), Blue (Steponus tenuirostris), & Gold (Steponus zanzibaricus). ***Spelling might not be spot on...argh***

They are somewhat territorial and can kill and eat shrimp.

They can be kept with fishes and some will even clean fishes as the one I have tries to do. lol.

They can be kept with corals and other inverts. But they can and sometimes will pinch/tear up corals as well as anemones.

Some say they are reef safe but they are not really considered a good choice for any mixed or reef tanks. I recommend caution and observation as I have seen one of my old ones tear a skunk cleaner shrimp apart and eat it.

Don't ever keep two in a tank unless you bought a mated pair. The female will usually be the larger one.

With this said, I guess I lucked out with the one I have presently.

Hope this helped.