Blood Red Fire Shrimp Attack blue tang

[Samwilliam]

Does the fire red shrimp attack the blue tang happen?
I saw Blue Tang lying down in the cave and the fire shrimp over it like pictures

 

[littlefoxx]

Does the fire red shrimp attack the blue tang happen?
I saw Blue Tang lying down in the cave and the fire shrimp over it like pictures

Is it alive?

 

[WheatToast]

I do not have experience with owning blue tangs, but chances are that it decided to go to sleep in the cave and the shrimp just decided to clean it.
On an unrelated note, the Linckia laevigata sea star is known to be almost impossible to keep alive in captivity (though I have seen success from those who target feed) and may not be an animal you want to keep.

 

[littlefoxx]

I do not have experience with owning blue tangs, but chances are that it decided to go to sleep in the cave and the shrimp just decided to clean it.
On an unrelated note, the Linckia laevigata sea star is known to be almost impossible to keep alive in captivity (though I have seen success from those who target feed) and may not be an animal you want to keep.

Blue tangs are super weird in where they sleep. Love to sleep on their side in a crack usually

 

[Debramb]

I hear” I’m Not Moving no matter how much you pester me”Lol
Debra

 

[Samwilliam]

Is it alive?

Yes, it has ich

 

[littlefoxx]

Yes, it has ich

Oh the shrimp is trying to help him, they eat parasites off fish

 

[Samwilliam]

I do not have experience with owning blue tangs, but chances are that it decided to go to sleep in the cave and the shrimp just decided to clean it.
On an unrelated note, the Linckia laevigata sea star is known to be almost impossible to keep alive in captivity (though I have seen success from those who target feed) and may not be an animal you want to keep.

I just got the Linckia laevigatasea star last Wednesday from Petco

 

[Samwilliam]

I do not have experience with owning blue tangs, but chances are that it decided to go to sleep in the cave and the shrimp just decided to clean it.
On an unrelated note, the Linckia laevigata sea star is known to be almost impossible to keep alive in captivity (though I have seen success from those who target feed) and may not be an animal you want to keep.

Oh the shrimp is trying to help him, they eat parasites off fish

I was afraid he might kill it.

 

[littlefoxx]

I was afraid he might kill it.

Oh no he is trying to help!

 

[WheatToast]

Oh no he is trying to help!

Cleaner shrimps will not "solve" ich, though. For that, treatment is necessary for all fish in a separate quarantine tank as well as a several-week fallow period in the main tank.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-cryptocaryon-irritans.191226/

 

[WheatToast]

I just got the Linckia laevigatasea star last Wednesday from Petco

Sorry to hijack the thread, but if you plan on keeping this sea star, I have heard that temporarily moving them into something like a breeder box (to give them time to locate food without having other organisms steal it) may work out. I have heard reports of Linckia laevigata eating meaty foods (ex. frozen mysis), dying coral tissue, and Aquilonastra/Asterina hitchhiker sea stars besides the usual biofilm.
@livinlifeinBKK
@AydenLincoln

 

[Samwilliam]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but if you plan on keeping this sea star, I have heard that temporarily moving them into something like a breeder box (to give them time to locate food without having other organisms steal it) may work out. I have heard reports of Linckia laevigata eating meaty foods (ex. frozen mysis), dying coral tissue, and Aquilonastra/Asterina hitchhiker sea stars besides the usual biofilm.
@livinlifeinBKK
@AydenLincoln

Thanks for the advice, I will do more research on this

 

[Samwilliam]

All my tangs got ich, blue, powder blue, brown, and gem except yellow and scopas

 

[kevgib67]

Yep, your little shrimp is just doing it’s job and the tang is loving it. Good luck with the ich, you’ve been given good advice.

 

[littlefoxx]

Cleaner shrimps will not "solve" ich, though. For that, treatment is necessary for all fish in a separate quarantine tank as well as a several-week fallow period in the main tank.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-cryptocaryon-irritans.191226/

Yes agree 100% I was just answering the OP’s question of what the shrimp was doing

 

[littlefoxx]

All my tangs got ich, blue, powder blue, brown, and gem except yellow and scopas

Are they tangs fighting at all?

 

[AydenLincoln]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but if you plan on keeping this sea star, I have heard that temporarily moving them into something like a breeder box (to give them time to locate food without having other organisms steal it) may work out. I have heard reports of Linckia laevigata eating meaty foods (ex. frozen mysis), dying coral tissue, and Aquilonastra/Asterina hitchhiker sea stars besides the usual biofilm.
@livinlifeinBKK
@AydenLincoln

I would not recommend a linckia due to difficulty and sensitivity.

 

[Samwilliam]

Are they tangs fighting at all?

No, they just fine unless I add a new tang to the tank

 

[littlefoxx]

No, they just fine unless I add a new tang to the tank

Gotcha. Are you treating the ich?