Hi everyone,
I have a 1.5 month old tank with 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 clownfish, and some snails.
The first creature I got is a skunk cleaner shrimp named "Skunk". I had read that it's good to keep them in pairs so I got a second cleaner shrimp named "Whiskers". Skunk has been in my tank for about 1 months and Whiskers just got here yesterday. I got Skunk from my LFS and Whiskers was shipped.
I didn't realize that Skunk is quite small/young but Whiskers is 1.5x-2x larger than Skunk! They don't fight on sight but if Skunk comes near Whiskers attacks him and Skunk jumps/swims away very fast. I feel really bad because Skunk seems very interested and curious.
I had always read people talking about how cleaner shrimp are super nice and chill and not aggressive but then I started searching "cleaner shrimp fighting" and I found several posts where people say their larger shrimp killed the smaller one So now I'm wondering should I just try and sell/rehome Whiskers before something happens? I've gotten pretty attached to Skunk, I would hate for something to happen to them
I have a 1.5 month old tank with 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 clownfish, and some snails.
The first creature I got is a skunk cleaner shrimp named "Skunk". I had read that it's good to keep them in pairs so I got a second cleaner shrimp named "Whiskers". Skunk has been in my tank for about 1 months and Whiskers just got here yesterday. I got Skunk from my LFS and Whiskers was shipped.
I didn't realize that Skunk is quite small/young but Whiskers is 1.5x-2x larger than Skunk! They don't fight on sight but if Skunk comes near Whiskers attacks him and Skunk jumps/swims away very fast. I feel really bad because Skunk seems very interested and curious.
I had always read people talking about how cleaner shrimp are super nice and chill and not aggressive but then I started searching "cleaner shrimp fighting" and I found several posts where people say their larger shrimp killed the smaller one So now I'm wondering should I just try and sell/rehome Whiskers before something happens? I've gotten pretty attached to Skunk, I would hate for something to happen to them