sen5241b
Reef enthusiast
The LFS person said they will eat just about anything. When I put too much brine shrimp in my tank, he will grab a piece floating past. He also seems to be eating pods. Comments? Suggestions?
Diet of the Coral Banded Shrimp
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d.french
Reef enthusiast
they will eat other shrimps and crabs, so keeping cleaner shrimp could be hard later on. mine killed 80 dollars in cleaner shrimps before i finally caught it and sent it back to pet store.
cgoodman381
can i put whtever i want?
He should leave your cleaners alone if hes well fed. Try target feeding him a smaller piece of krill.
SSalty
Team Liquid Force
They can also grab small fish.
Alexander
Reef enthusiast
Good luck with him. Target feeding will be really important. I would try a few different types of food. Hopefully it will not kill anything else.
yote
In Memoriam
I had a CBS that decided it liked coral flesh better than any of the frozen stuff I was giving him.Ate zoas,yellow polyp anemones,mushrooms.
Bifferwine
I am a girl
They will eat corals, fish, crabs, other shrimp, basically anything they can get their claws on. Definitely not reef safe.
tizapolgar
Zymurgist
All of the above, ESPECIALLY if you rescue him/her from a tank that was never fed for about six months.
They get starving kitten syndrome...we have one in a ten gallon that is VERY well fed by us, but he STILL goes after the one poor chromis we have with him, snails, occasionally a small group of button polyps, etc.
We set the tank up from stuff we just had laying around especially for him/her, so it's not that big of a deal. But I would think twice before sticking one in a well thought-out reef tank.
They get starving kitten syndrome...we have one in a ten gallon that is VERY well fed by us, but he STILL goes after the one poor chromis we have with him, snails, occasionally a small group of button polyps, etc.
We set the tank up from stuff we just had laying around especially for him/her, so it's not that big of a deal. But I would think twice before sticking one in a well thought-out reef tank.
reeffreak
Reef pro
Strange,I had one for over five years,kept with a skunk cleaner and fire without a problem.It never bothered the corals,either.It ate whatever meaty foods that hit the bottom-mysis,prime reef,krill etc.
sen5241b
Reef enthusiast
When the fish come near him he'll reach out with his claw but the clown and dottyback don't take crap from the CBS. The Dottyback has pecked at him a couple times.
With a lot of these situations I think size does matter! You think a small emerald crab or small CBS is really going to grab a 6 to 8 inch blue tang? :sfish:
With a lot of these situations I think size does matter! You think a small emerald crab or small CBS is really going to grab a 6 to 8 inch blue tang? :sfish:
Bifferwine
I am a girl
Maybe not grab and totally take out, but all it takes is one cut from a shrimp's claw to cause an infection and/or enough stress to kill the fish.
