Pistol shrimp

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  1. stepho

    stepho Panda Puffer

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    HAHA. My cleaner wrasse thought about cleaning my hand once but thought better of it when all the other fish went swimming in the other direction.
     
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  3. schackmel

    schackmel Giant Squid

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    I have a plain old red cleaner shrimp (along with a pistol) and that cleaner is one my favorites. He is such a burger though...I hand feed my corals krill....I have to have a piece of krill for him when I do otherwise he goes around and plucks every piece out of the corals mouth...even my anemone. But I will hold out a piece of krill for hiim and he will walk up and just take it right out from my hand. So does my rabbitfish but I am trying to break that...as now whenever I have my hand in there the rabbit is right there....and do not want to get stung by him.

    The shrimp cracks me up because no matter where he is, or who he is cleaning whenever I have my hand in the tank for anything he comes over and cleans my hand. I can open up my hand flat even and he will crawl into my palm.

    I guess I am ok though as long as I have krill for him;D
     
  4. Fuzzyfishog

    Fuzzyfishog Bristle Worm

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    I kind of blamed my pistol shrimp for killing my 3 pepermint shrimp after I seen the vidio on u tube . My peperments disapeared after about 3 months . I only had a yello tang,2 fire fish and a clown so I figured the pistols got them . I took out a couple of piles of rubble with xenia on them last night and wow were they mad they were poping like crazy at me .