Cleaner shrimp eating corals

toadstool_paradise

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So a few months ago got a skunk cleaner shrimp. I love watching it clean the fish however recently it’s grown huge and seemed to have developed a taste for corals. It’s been picking ferociously on my frozen apple zoas, corky finger gorgonian and my neon green sinularia.
I’m pretty torn because I feed the shrimp every day but it still does this. I feel like I have to choose between my corals and shrimp and it sucks. Anyone else have this issue? My family and I love this little guy but probably love corals more.
 

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Is it eating the corals or picking something off of them? old food perhaps?
 

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That shrimp has to go! Fortunately they are usually reef safe so I'd just pick up another one
 

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Well at least cleaner shrimp are the easiest creatures ever to catch. They will literally climb into your hand!
 

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Thats crazy. It is typical for them to steal or pick food off coral but if you are correct- Its time to trade/sell it and replace with maybe a coral banded shrimp
 

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