Coral Banded Shrimp safe or harassing?

[Hamza Hamid]

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.

Actually, your conversation is very Interesting to read and very helpful. Thank u.

 

[Captain Quint]

Actually, your conversation is very Interesting to read and very helpful. Thank u.

Thank you for the kind words.

 

[shercash1963]

Had one years ago killed hippotang looked like he was sliced.very expensive lesson

 

[southeastfishaddict]

I have a large coral banded shrimp in my reef tank with a mixture of cleaner, blood & sexy shrimp and they all get along. The coral banded may be too slow to catch the other shrimp..