Coral Banded Shrimp

Just followed me home from LFS.

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Had a bit of a sqabble with skunk cleaner when first introduced...along with some aggresive looking behavior from Flame Wrasse.

But after minute or two, everyone went their own happy way.

The CB immediatly went to bottom of tank and started eating what it could find in sand.

A pretty addition to tank.

 

I always enjoyed mine.

 

Before the green britle star ate it.....

 

You know I was going to say that but I knew someone would chime in and say why the hell do you have one of those in a reef tank...:-[

 

I had two skunk cleaners in with mine and both of them disappeared over time...
I could not attribute their demise with anything else in the tank. So, now I just have the coral banded and I do not put any others in there with it

Jim

 

Cool addition!! Mine usually stays on the bottom of a ledge I have. It does not cause too much trouble and if it does I guess Im going to have to buy a green brittle star ;D Mine sometimes starts cleaning my yellow tang at night.

 

Congrats on the new addition! Mine comes out all the time! Lots of fun to watch!

 

mine has taken over , even has a shot at me when i stick my hand in the tank
very cool creatures

 

Mine is awesome, he now roams the tank day and night. He is still territorial, as they tend to be, but does not bother the cleaner at all. He has "attacked" me when I get to close to his favorite place, under the live rock center piece. LOL

 

Somewhere around 20 years ago I had a tank with 5 damsels and a coral banded shrimp.The lived together without incident for over 2 years.In that time the shrimp grew quite large.One day I came home from work to find a dead damsel.A few days later while watching the tank I saw the shrimp grab a damsel and go for a short ride.He chose to grab the same damsel every time it got close.In two days the damsel was dead,and dinner.In about 3 months all the damsels were dead.He lived alone in the tank for 3 more years until one day I came home and found him wrapped in what looked like white fuzz.I have never observed that kind of behavior again or had a coral banded shrimp live that long.