Cleaner Shrimp and Peppermint Shrimp at a 33gal tank

[Brazilian Reefer]

Do you have experiences with Cleaner Shrimp? Does it help clean the waste on the sand? Already have a Peppermint Shrimp here, he’s kind of lazy Is there any trouble if I keep both in a 33gallon tank?

Thanks

 

[fishski13]

The cleaner shrimp does not get its name from cleaning algae or sand but cleaning fish from parasites and dry tissue. Its a mutualistic relationship between the shrimp and fish.

Other than that they eat any food you give it, so I take tongs and feed it some brine or mysis shrimp. Or it may pick off shrimp off the sand when you feed.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

I had a cleaner shrimp that did not relate to any fish and just got fat from target feeding, I have a fire shrimp which hides inside cave with my pistol shrimp and have seen it turn my firefish over like a massage and firefish happy to receive a clean, I also have peppermint shrimp still new so just randomly walking about, if your fish are free of parasites for shrimp to clean then no relationship will happen

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Fire

 

[bstodds15]

As the others said - cleaner shrimp won’t do anything for your sand bed (other then eat left over food that settles the the bottom during feeding)

what’s the issue with the sand bed/what needs to be cleaned?

 

[bstodds15]

Fire

How’s your red mandarin doing??

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

While cleaner shrimp will eat uneaten food, they do not eat any algae or detritus. Instead, you could try snails. In a 33 gallon, a single fighting conch will do a good job. The cleaner should do fine with the peppermint, just don't expect it to clean the tank. I hope that this helps!

 

[Rick's Reviews]

How’s your red mandarin doing??

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Not my post, my red mandarin is picking up small pieces of frozen bloodworm and green mandarin similar but larger, I will post video tomorrow , any questions please ask directly as this is not my post

 

[Brazilian Reefer]

As the others said - cleaner shrimp won’t do anything for your sand bed (other then eat left over food that settles the the bottom during feeding)

what’s the issue with the sand bed/what needs to be cleaned?

Yeah, just got a Sand Starfish to help the clean-up crew.

 

[Brazilian Reefer]

While cleaner shrimp will eat uneaten food, they do not eat any algae or detritus. Instead, you could try snails. In a 33 gallon, a single fighting conch will do a good job. The cleaner should do fine with the peppermint, just don't expect it to clean the tank. I hope that this helps!

Just got 2 Astraea Snails and more Turbo Snails

 

[vetteguy53081]

Cleaner shrimp are active scavengers that May clean tankmates otherwise hide and wait for food. peppermint other than IF they eat aptasia, are useless and take up space