Watchman goby ate my shrimp

[ianchad]

I had a cleaner shrimp in my tank for months and all of a sudden he went missing, I have a watchman goby, percula clown, royal gramma, yellow tailed damsel and an orange shoulder tang......no aggression or anything, I noticed a piece of aptasia so I got a peppermint shrimp, abput 2 hours later he is no way to be found, I start looking in from outside and my watchman goby has my shrimp sticking out of my mouth.......everywhere and everyone says that they can be in tank together......like what the heck

 

[Clowning_Around72]

I had a cleaner shrimp in my tank for months and all of a sudden he went missing, I have a watchman goby, percula clown, royal gramma, yellow tailed damsel and an orange shoulder tang......no aggression or anything, I noticed a piece of aptasia so I got a peppermint shrimp, abput 2 hours later he is no way to be found, I start looking in from outside and my watchman goby has my shrimp sticking out of my mouth.......everywhere and everyone says that they can be in tank together......like what the heck

If it can almost fit in its mouth. Never assume it is fully safe. Something I've always known from keeping freshwater fish. Yeah the likelihood of a small goby eating a new tiny peppermint shrimp isn't that high. But the chance is there.

 

[ianchad]

If it can almost fit in its mouth. Never assume it is fully safe. Something I've always known from keeping freshwater fish. Yeah the likelihood of a small goby eating a new tiny peppermint shrimp isn't that high. But the chance is there.

The shrimp was literally almost the same size as the watchman goby-_-

 

[Tamberav]

no photo?

 

[DoupaZzz]

The shrimp was literally almost the same size as the watchman goby-_-

I doubt the goby hunted a shrimp that large. It's possible that the shrimp died and then the goby ate a piece of it. Did you drip acclimate it? And for the cleaner shrimp probably something similar happen. I would test the water to check if water parameters are doing okay.

 

[Clowning_Around72]

I doubt the goby hunted a shrimp that large. It's possible that the shrimp died and then the goby ate a piece of it. Did you drip acclimate it? And for the cleaner shrimp probably something similar happen. I would test the water to check if water parameters are doing okay.

I'm which case it is probably this.
It's not impossible for the watchman to still have taken out a weakened shrimp that wasn't moving right. But, this is more likely

 

[ianchad]

no photo?

I couldn't get a picture. He was under the rockwork, and the flash was reflecting on the glass