Murder Cleaner Shrimp

Nigel35 · May 7, 2021

Know I know this may sound ridiculous but my cleaner shrimp is willing to eat literally anything it can get it's hands on... wether that be my entire sand sifting crew or the nori of the clip. He eats like a pig... I bought a sand sifting starfish to sift around the sand and I am just worry like heck about the cleaner shrimp taking a shot at him. I know their should be no problems, even if the shrimp is under fed. Anybody have a problem with their shrimps eating sand sifting starfish?

Nigel

Uncle99 · May 7, 2021

Never, he’s just doing his job, cleaning.
Sometimes they might bother corals.
If he actually eats the starfish, that’s not a cleaner shrimp.

SeahawkMom · Jul 3, 2021

My coral banded cleaner shrimp got my six line wrasse overnight. Back to the LFS with him. Got a peppermint cleaner instead.

TuxUrchin07 · Jul 3, 2021

SeahawkMom said:
My coral banded cleaner shrimp got my six line wrasse overnight. Back to the LFS with him. Got a peppermint cleaner instead.

if they can they will. My flow is too strong for my coral banded to hunt tho

SeahawkMom · Jul 4, 2021

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TuxUrchin07 said:
if they can they will. My flow is too strong for my coral banded to hunt tho

I think he got the wrasse while it was sleeping. No way he would have got him during the day.

BiggestE222 · Jul 4, 2021

Nigel35 said:
Know I know this may sound ridiculous but my cleaner shrimp is willing to eat literally anything it can get it's hands on... wether that be my entire sand sifting crew or the nori of the clip. He eats like a pig... I bought a sand sifting starfish to sift around the sand and I am just worry like heck about the cleaner shrimp taking a shot at him. I know their should be no problems, even if the shrimp is under fed. Anybody have a problem with their shrimps eating sand sifting starfish?

Nigel

He must not be getting fed to attach cuc. Of course any scavenger will eat a dead cuc member.