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They can be just as bad as peppermints and skunk cleaner in stealing food from corals as your feeding them but I also find the flame shrimp to be a bit more timid if you chase it off the coral. Mine usually won't come back to the coral and steal more food after I chase it off until the next feeding.best time 2 ask. Do they have behavior similar to peppermints gangster stealing food and become that when food enters they become annoying.
Just experienced that with my new peppermint shrimp I put in q-tank with new corals. I had to move him so he wouldn't kill my more expensive corals I just purchased. Now I am worried about moving him into my dd but got him for aptasia control.I personally dislike all shrimp! Even though I have a cleaner shrimp, it annoys my fish and steals food from corals.It also makes a big mess with algae sheets. I dislike peppermint shrimp even more because when they get hungry they will tear into fleshy corals (search for this on YouTube if you don't believe it).
I wish they were bigger!Pedersons Shrimp.
They can be just as bad as peppermints and skunk cleaner in stealing food from corals as your feeding them but I also find the flame shrimp to be a bit more timid if you chase it off the coral. Mine usually won't come back to the coral and steal more food after I chase it off until the next feeding.
I have a coral banded shrimp... he pinches my hand and tries to grab fish and caused my six line wrasse to jump over board. It turned into a potato chip before I realized what happened. That evil shrimp is banished to my nano/frag tank. ;Rage;Punch
I'd have to go with the pistol or sexy shrimp(voted for pistol, because goby/pistol pair is so cool) as my favorite reef shrimp. While pretty, all the cleaners have a tendency to rip the mouths of LPS corals open and steal food, eventually killing the coral.
My friends feeling where hurt when they saw this poll. I figured I would let them speak their mind. Mantis shrimp are by far my favorite reef shrimp even though they are not safe to house with a lot of other inverts and sometimes fish. In my main reef displays though I have always been a fan of cleaner shrimp even though they steal food from corals.
The mantis shrimp is not a shrimp but it is still a crustacean. They are stomatopods a group of their own.
I was then going to post that.
I'm a stomatopod not a pesky shrimp
That is such a cool pictureAgree. Nothing prettier than the fire shrimp. My daughter loves puttinf her arm in my tank and having our fire shrimp crawl up it. She says "Daddy, can we do the shrimp trick?"