killer cleaner shrimp

[Tommy's Reef]

So yesterday a normal day with my reef, yeah right, more like a complete tear down and massacre. Got off work came home to my 75 g reef started making dinner and then looked at my reef while n the middle of cooking chicken fajitas and saw one of my 4 inch long baby engineer goby fighting for his life. I seen him barely make it around some rocks, and then seen one of my skunk cleaner shrimp pop out from behind the rocks and grab him by his tail and drug him to the back of the tank behind the rocks I freaked, I told my wife take over the fajitas and threw the canopy off and started putting rock on the floor to get to the goby and shrimp. I have over 125 pounds of rock. I've been trying to get the shrimp out for weeks cause they won't let my corals eat and they have recently started eating a 150 dollar colony of blastos. They were litterly eating them cause the blastos are newer to the tank and I've been target feeding them every couple of days well I've tried too but the shrimp ripp them open and steal the food. And this is the reason I freaked cause I've had enough of these killer shrimp, it was time. I completely destroyed the tank!! Water was straight up brown from all the commotion wene I was done. I got the shrimp saved the goby he was half way eaten, he died this morning in a holding tank. The shrimp are banished to the back sump. I will never put another predator shrimp in my tank again lol that's what they are. They were good shrimp idk what happened they cleaned the fish once but they got big and went haywire the engineer gobys have been in my tank for months doing fine the shrimps have been in there forever. Now I got one lonely goby lol crazyy

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

:(
shrimp are jerks.

 

[Tommy's Reef]

Man I hate cleaner shrimp they're like what everone wants 2, cause they complete your reef but never again they go crazy after awhile

 

[Tommy's Reef]

Poor little goby was just able to fight to the front to let me know he needed help

 

[Tommy's Reef]

One of the craziest things I've seen

 

[Tommy's Reef]

And I've turned on the lights to see my yellow watchman with my six line wrasse in his mouth lol

 

[Tommy's Reef]

They're doing fine today

 

[jetmaker]

A skunk cleaner shrimp

 

[Tommy's Reef]

Yeah they are the ones with red and white stripes going down there back

 

[jetmaker]

OMG never had that happen before. How long was he or big.

 

[Ryengoth]

Yah, that sounds odd considering they normally clean the fish and the rocks. They must have been lacking some protein in their diet. LOL I will say, though, that my pair are pigs when it's dinner time and ran my blood fire out of his fav cave. If I feed tilapia bits or fresh shrimp chunks they're hogging as much as they can swim and catch even swimming upside down at the top to grab the floaters. :eek:

 

[jetmaker]

Yah, that sounds odd considering they normally clean the fish and the rocks. They must have been lacking some protein in their diet. LOL I will say, though, that my pair are pigs when it's dinner time and ran my blood fire out of his fav cave. If I feed tilapia bits or fresh shrimp chunks they're hogging as much as they can swim and catch even swimming upside down at the top to grab the floaters. :eek:

My pair is same way. They also clean my fish.

 

[Tommy's Reef]

No these guys eat more than my fish do they get there own serving everyday

 

[Tommy's Reef]

I think they just got so big they turned into bullys

 

[Ryengoth]

lol.. sounds familiar

 

[Tommy's Reef]

Killers lol about as long as my index fingers and as round

 

[Tommy's Reef]

They are big guys, one lays thousands of eggs every month. You'd would think I dropped a couple of ounces of brine in there if u seen it

 

[Ryengoth]

Mine are about the same size and can eat as much as one of the adult ochre-striped cardinals. They keep the rocks pretty clean tho! I'm wondering if the blood fire that died after a year of pairing was due to a murderous skunk cleaner. I've seen a juvi yellow striped cardinal disappear and found a half-consumed azure damselfish on Monday. :oops:

 

[Tommy's Reef]

They use to be good shrimp

 

[Ryengoth]

They are big guys, one lays thousands of eggs every month. You'd would think I dropped a couple of ounces of brine in there if u seen it

My peppermints use to do that and cloud the tank up. feeding freenzy! One of my skunks has green eggs (with no ham) right now.. just waiting for it. Hoping I can rear some in my QT with my algae project. :D