Zoa's and sexy shrimp

[authentic]

I have a mini complete tank,very very very small.I added some do as and two small sexy shrimp.the Wendy's disappeared! Would do as eat them?????

 

[danieyella]

I have a mini complete tank,very very very small.I added some do as and two small sexy shrimp.the Wendy's disappeared! Would do as eat them?????

Is it possible the shrimp are hiding out in a crevice in the rockwork? What else is in the tank with them? I think the likelihood of zoas eating them is pretty low, personally.

 

[authentic]

Nothing else in the tank

 

[PicassoClown04]

I have over a dozen types of zoas and two sexy shrimp in the same tank. The zoas are not the cause. Check if they jumped? Unlikely, but I highly doubt the zoas ate them. I see mine standing on my zoas all the time no issue.

 

[andrewkw]

The sexy shrimp may eat the zoas, but the zoas won't eat the sexy shrimp. Sexy shrimp are not really reef safe and will eat various corals* however they are so tiny they can't really inflict very much damage. The only corals that are truly in danger from them are tiny frags like zoa frags or other tiny frags that are just a couple of polyps.

 

[PicassoClown04]

The sexy shrimp may eat the zoas, but the zoas won't eat the sexy shrimp. Sexy shrimp are not really reef safe and will eat various corals* however they are so tiny they can't really inflict very much damage. The only corals that are truly in danger from them are tiny frags like zoa frags or other tiny frags that are just a couple of polyps.

I’ve never even witnessed this. I feel like if you keep em fed they don’t feel the need to predate on corals (like how keeping a dwarf angel fed stops this behavior). I just make sure to send some reefroids their direction a couple times a week and they go nuts for it. One is routinely on my nem, one is always in the zoas, and occasionally I’ll see them together in my euphyllia garden. Never seen any damage done to any coral, even though I have a few 1 polyp Zoa frags.