Cleaner shrimp issues

[spamvicious]

I recently added a cleaner shrimp to my 52l nano tank and while he’s a great little character he’s constantly picking at my corals and also trying to get at the snails.

I spot feed him with some sinking pellets every day and he also get some of the frozen food/smaller pellet food that the two clown fish get.

Is my tank maybe just too small for him?. Is he not getting enough food?. Today he was trying to pry a turban snail off the glass.

 

[1112-425XL]

It doesn't matter what size tank you have, Cleaner shrimp are a nuisance. Constantly annoying corals, anemones, and other inverts. The only one I have left lives in my sump with an evil clown fish.

 

[ChiCity]

^ this.

they’re annoyingly opportunistic….

which is the worst thing
for corals that need to eat meaty foods.

(keep em in their own displays, or better yet on the dinner table)

 

[Bpones]

I recently added a cleaner shrimp to my 52l nano tank and while he’s a great little character he’s constantly picking at my corals and also trying to get at the snails.

I spot feed him with some sinking pellets every day and he also get some of the frozen food/smaller pellet food that the two clown fish get.

Is my tank maybe just too small for him?. Is he not getting enough food?. Today he was trying to pry a turban snail off the glass.

Which type did you add? I have two of the skunk cleaners and have had zero problems …. yet

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Which type did you add? I have two of the skunk cleaners and have had zero problems …. yet

Sme here I have had a skunk cleaner for almost a year now with no issues.

 

[Jayden K]

Sme here I have had a skunk cleaner for almost a year now with no issues.

I'm new but from what I've been reading, skunks are way better than the other types like peppermint or something like that.

 

[AZ_Reefer]

I have to cleaners right now and have no problem

 

[spamvicious]

Which type did you add? I have two of the skunk cleaners and have had zero problems …. yet

I think in the uk these are just called cleaner shrimp but are called skunk cleaner shrimps elsewhere

 

[spamvicious]

It doesn't matter what size tank you have, Cleaner shrimp are a nuisance. Constantly annoying corals, anemones, and other inverts. The only one I have left lives in my sump with an evil clown fish.

I put in a new toadstool leather yesterday so of course today it’s been slowly adjusting. Every time it started to open its polyps the blooming shrimp would jump on it like a climbing frame so it closed back up.

 

[Jayden K]

I put in a new toadstool leather yesterday so of course today it’s been slowly adjusting. Every time it started to open its polyps the blooming shrimp would jump on it like a climbing frame so it closed back up.

You got unlucky

 

[Sophie"s mom]

I'm new but from what I've been reading, skunks are way better than the other types like peppermint or something like that.

YEs, from what I know of them, skunks are the better to have. They really do not bother anything in my tank. I have several anemones, LPS, soft corals, fish, and everyone is happy.