Yellow banded coral shrimp compatibility

[ZipAdeeZoa]

Hello everyone!

I work at an LFS and got a call earlier this morning from my boss saying a customers 125 blew a seam and he needed all hands on deck to get his fish and rock into our systems. While doing so I came across a bucket on inverts and saw one of these shrimps for the first time. Franky I was quite smitten by it as well as a halloween hermit crab. The customer said we could sell off the live stock as he doesn't have time to set up a new tank. I took the halloween hermit home today to live in my frag QT tank where he will reside until I upgrade my tank whenever that may be.

My current tank (DT) is a Fluval evo 13.5 gallon and although I do plan on upgrading it probably won't be for a while. My current livestock includes 1x dwarf blue leg, 1x scarlet, 1x pom pom crab and 1x small Fire shrimp. The tank is pretty packed with corals but when I scaped the tank I made sure to have lots of ledges and caves since I like the more cryptic critters. I wanted to get some opinions on wether adding another shrimp would be alright for both compatibility and stocking for my tanks size. I've only been doing salt for about a year and half now and I still don't really have a feel for stocking tanks like I do in freshwater so I figured I'd ask! Here is a photo of the tank if it helps any.

Thanks in advance!

 

[fishguy242]

hi ,i would be a little scared that it would kill the fire shrimp,poss few smaller crabs ,just my exp with red banded

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

hi ,i would be a little scared that it would kill the fire shrimp,poss few smaller crabs ,just my exp with red banded

I have heard that the regular coral bandeds can be pretty nasty but the info I've found on the yellow bandeds suggest they may not be as mean and they thankfully don't get as large either, I'm keeping their cousins behavior in mind though!

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

Quick bump because I posted this at 2 AM last night and I’m kinda falling in love with this shrimp at work right now ;Hilarious

 

[fishguy242]

how about a pic?? @najer any thoughts??

 

[BloopFish]

I would wager that the fire shrimp and Yellow CSB will fight often. They may be fine for some time, but I imagine something bad could happen once one of them molts. Even fire shrimp will be mean to another non-paired fire shrimp, same with CSB in general. A 13.5 gallon is also very tiny, and would have very little room for either to hide. Also, I think even if they don't end up killing eachother, I would imagine your fire shrimp will be even more elusive and hide more often.

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

how about a pic?? @najer any thoughts??

Forgot to grab a pic today but I can grab one tomorrow!

I would wager that the fire shrimp and Yellow CSB will fight often. They may be fine for some time, but I imagine something bad could happen once one of them molts. Even fire shrimp will be mean to another non-paired fire shrimp, same with CSB in general. A 13.5 gallon is also very tiny, and would have very little room for either to hide. Also, I think even if they don't end up killing eachother, I would imagine your fire shrimp will be even more elusive and hide more often.

If thats the case then I will just have to enjoy it at work until it sells then, I’m quite attached to my fire shrimp (all my inverts actually). Perhaps once I get something bigger I might revisit this but for now I’ll pass. Thank you!