what kind of shrimp

[treesprite]

Can someone tell me what kind of shrimp is there that will not eat snails?

 

My cleaner shrimp was the victim of a clown-initiated avalanche several months ago and I want to replace it, but not with one that is going to eat my snails like that one was doing. Every time a snail somehow turned over, the shrimp got it before it could right itself (I have heard that only certain snails can... does anyone know anything about that?). It also stole food right out of the fishs' mouths - do all shrimp do that?

[Charlie97L]

Can someone tell me what kind of shrimp is there that will not eat snails?

 

My cleaner shrimp was the victim of a clown-initiated avalanche several months ago and I want to replace it, but not with one that is going to eat my snails like that one was doing. Every time a snail somehow turned over, the shrimp got it before it could right itself (I have heard that only certain snails can... does anyone know anything about that?). It also stole food right out of the fishs' mouths - do all shrimp do that?

 

if it's doing that, you might need to start target feeding your shrimp, or just make sure that he's getting some food. i never had that happen.

 

was it a skunk cleaner? or other?

 

i had my skunk go after stuff that was dying, ie, if i missed a turned over snail for a few days, but that's about it

[mling]

I have had my Pistol Shrimp for 3 years without any problems with it going after inverts. I think that might be becasue it has real bad eye sight. Thought I read somewhere that pistol shrimp are almost blind.

 

They will barrow all over your sand bed though.

 

Here's a pic of it.

[bigJPDC]

ha - very cool pic mling. my tiger never came out from under rockwork.

[flowerseller]

I did not realize they would be the attacker as opposed to the opportunistic scavenger.

[Rascal]

Can someone tell me what kind of shrimp is there that will not eat snails?

 

My cleaner shrimp was the victim of a clown-initiated avalanche several months ago and I want to replace it, but not with one that is going to eat my snails like that one was doing. Every time a snail somehow turned over, the shrimp got it before it could right itself (I have heard that only certain snails can... does anyone know anything about that?). It also stole food right out of the fishs' mouths - do all shrimp do that?

 

If it was a skunk cleaner, that's the first I've ever heard of one being at all aggressive. Mine have always been model citizens. Probably the most reef-safe, in fact beneficial, of all shrimps IMO.

 

Astrea snails (pointy shells) have a more difficult time righting themselves than most other snails, especially on a sand bed.

[tygger]

My skunk cleaner doesn't bother any of my snails either. When I feed flake food, it would actually swim upside-down to the top of the tank to get food by the overflow.

[JMsAquarium]

I did not realize they would be the attacker as opposed to the opportunistic scavenger.

 

Same opinion here. Shrimps are opportunistic scavengers rather than attackers. With the excemption of the mantis shrimp of course.

['Ric]

I had a pair of Banded Coral Shrimp that would take half the arms off my starfish.

 

I don't think Sexy Shrimp would be capable of doing harm to snails since they are so small themselves. But, they might fall prey to something. I had eight in my tank, and am now down to one. I have no idea what is happening to them. They did fine for quite a while; even when mush smaller.

[tygger]

I had a pair of Banded Coral Shrimp that would take half the arms off my starfish.

 

I don't think Sexy Shrimp would be capable of doing harm to snails since they are so small themselves. But, they might fall prey to something. I had eight in my tank, and am now down to one. I have no idea what is happening to them. They did fine for quite a while; even when mush smaller.

 

Do you have places for them to hide? My sexy shrimps hide out in the branching hammer coral all day long and only come out at night or during feeding time.

[treesprite]

It's the cleaner with the red stripe down it's back. It was a pretty good size.

 

This shrimp was super FAST. The clown knocks the snails off the walls for some reason, and when I had the shrimp I kept having to rush to flip them because as soon as they were down, the shrimp was all over them, much faster than snails can right themselves.

 

It definately got enough to eat. As soon as I'd put food in the tank, it would be right there faster than the fish, and take pieces of frozen stuff from my hand, and would go up to the fish and take food right from their mouths as they were trying to stuff it all in. The fish were clearly unhappy with it, trying to keep out of its way.

 

Really bad pic, but the only one with it in it:

 

Edited August 22, 2007 by treesprite