Sexy shrimp irritating frogspawn

[TJ Merrells]

Some days this is as huge as my frogspawn gets. Used to get huge. I know they're not eating it but definitely irritating the coral. Anyone else have a similar issue??

Sexy shrimp are well fed

 

[andrewkw]

How do you know they are not eating it?

Sexy Shrimp tend to eat lots of different type of corals. It often goes unnoticed due to the fact they are so small and generally don’t cause a lot of damage.

 

[TJ Merrells]

How do you know they are not eating it?

Sexy Shrimp tend to eat lots of different type of corals. It often goes unnoticed due to the fact they are so small and generally don’t cause a lot of damage.

I've kept a very close eye on it recently. I have 5 of them residing within this frogspawn. There's no visible damage at all and I literally sit there and watch them and they're in the coral. I do see them picking at it but it looks more like they're eating the mucus off the coral rather the flesh of it