Gold coral banded shrimp

Would this guy get along with my cleaner ?? I also worry about my purple dottyback but he pays no attention to my cleaner shrimp / small hermits. I want one!

 

I actually saw one of those for the first time today on a website...SO COOL!!

 

I personally would worry about the dottyback. I had a blue CBS, and they stay very small and will not reach the size (or "usefulness" to the fish) of a cleaner shrimp. In other words, it would be considered an "ornamental" shrimp that is often the prey of many fish.

My blue stayed on the bottom with my Diamond Watchman goby (cleaned him in exchange for sharing the burrow), the cleaners stayed at the top and the peps stayed in the middle. I didn't have any fish that had a taste for ornamental shrimp, though.

 

I don't think a small one would attack a cleaner if the cleaner was a lot bigger than it. I had a pretty big CBS until recently, though, and i would always see him going after my cleaner.

 

That's what one LFS told me... so I bought the CBS... and the cleaner enjoyed his gourmet meal as soon as it was introduced into the tank.

Others have had better luck, but I would never mix them again.

 

Regular sized CBS are aggressive, I wouldn't mix other shrimp with them either. However, the gold only gets 2" and the blue 1 1/2".

What size is the tank?

 

I wouldn't risk it

 

40 gallon ..my cleaner shrimp always hangs on my powerhead at the top of the tank...i'm not so much worried about the two shrimp more about the psuedo eating the GCBS

 

Yeah, I had mine in a 38. 2 cleaners, the blue CBS, and about 5 peps. The only aggression was between the peps when one molted (another attacked and ate it). I would definitely be more worried about the fish.