shrimp questions

Also, sexy shrimp are labeled as reefsafe, I just got a pair of the about a week ago and if you don't keep them well fed, they might nip at some corals. One of my two nip at my frogspawn, birds of paradise and zoas if I don't give them food EVERYDAY. Just an FYI

 

this isn't a sexy shrimp, its a peterson or anemone shrimp. so if i get 2 of those and one or two cleaner shrimp or a cleaner and a fireshrimp, everything should coexist?

I guess I just get a goby and no pistol?

 

Sexy shrimp are also known as anemone shrimp. They are different from the Peterson shrimp though. I have no experience with the Petersons'.

 

so the skunk cleaner, bloodred fire shrimp and pederson shrimp should be okay together? but no pistol shrimp or coral banded shrimp? unless we just do coral banded shrimp, then its okay. are the colored coral banded any better or worse and do all the coral banded color or not perform cleaning duties?

 

The colored coral banded (the blue and the yellow) stay very small. I think there's a larger yellow coral banded though, so make sure what you're buying.

I had a blue one before, it was awesome. Lived with my Diamond Watchman goby & my tiny redheaded goby in the watchman's burrow in return for cleaning duties.

Don't have any experience with Pederson's but there should be plenty of reading out there on it if you google it.

 

do the blue perform cleaning duties? the aquacon site doesn't specify for that one, says the yellow and regular ones do.

and are the colored ones just as aggressive? IE. basically coral banded shrimp or other shrimp, no mixing them.

and the site says only mated pairs of coral banded and yellow coral banded should be kept together, is that the same with the blue ones? they don't sell mated pairs of blue. so I'm basically stuck with one shrimp if I go with a blue one?

 

My blue one cleaned the Watchman goby, but that was it. He stayed at the bottom of the tank & no other fish hung out down there except the redheaded goby hanging with them both. I had 2 skunk cleaners that cleaned everyone else. While I did buy my blue cleaner from aquacon, it was back in 2002 and I would not buy anything from them now. Lots of issues with them. I was researching buying another blue one and did find a couple of other places that sold them, I think Liveaquaria (very trustworthy) was one of them, but I think I might just ask an LFS to get one for me if they will. I've been seeing yellow ones around town.

My blue stayed on the bottom 1/4 of the rocks at the sand area, and didn't venture very far from the burrow unless he was following the goby. He wasn't aggressive at all and nothing bothered him. I had 2 skunk cleaners & 4 peppermints in there too. I originally got a mated pair of blue, but the female didn't do well through acclimation & got eaten alive by a nassarius. The blue seemed fine in there with the goby to hang with.

I would not worry about a 1 1/2" (that's as big as they get) blue being aggressive, and mine may only have done as well as he did because he had a 5" goby as a bodyguard LOL.

You can tell the female by the blue ovaries.
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so I could do a goby with a blue coral banded and then an anemone shrimp and a skunk cleaner or something like that? that would be perfect. only reason I consider aquacon is they are local so we can just go and pickup the stuff from them.

 

Oh. Well I guess I was wrong...ooops. I'll have to look that up.

 

The bigger the claw the meaner they are, imo. True to crabs as well.