cleaner shrimp

Hi guys, I may have a problem. I have a cleaner shrimp who lost 3 legs and all of his antennas have been cut short. I am not sure if my fish is nipping at it or if it’s being caused by my circulation pump...or something else? I have a fluval 13.5 evo and my circulation pump is somewhat close to...

Thought I would share some pics of my setup. Added the clowns two weeks ago, and the firefish yesterday. I was thinking of doing one or two more fish in here...

Hi, I am having a heck of a time with inverts and it's only getting worse. Tank: 70 gallon mixed reef. Kole tang, 2 anthias, bi-colored blenny, and 2 clowns. Several SPS and LPS (SPS grow well in the tank but LPS is hit and miss) and softies (grow really well). I lose cleaner shrimp every...

Hi, I usually always have a pair of cleaners but cannot keep them alive past 4 months. I run a mixed reef and I don’t think I am subject to any massive swings. I check params weekly and do 10% water changes weekly. One will die almost guaranteed at the 4 month mark, I will replace, and then the...

Shrimp die off I have had 2 cleaner shrimps for about 1 yare now, healthy and fine. I have also added 5 peppermint shrimps for about 2 weeks ago. Both cleaner shrimps have died the last weeks. And I have lost 2 peppermints as well. the system is 210gallons in total. Tank tread for more info...

I picked up a nearly full grown cleaner shrimp, simply because I like them. Around the same time I sent off an ICP test. It came back high in a few heavy metals (chrome and vanadium, which I found and removed the source) and suggested weekly 20% water changes over 3 weeks. I did the first one...

I have a Reefer 350 that has been running for about five to six months, with three fish, a mini angel, a royal gramma and a damsel fish. I have tried all sorts of invertebrates and they just won’t survive. Snails, coral, an anemone and cleaner shrimp. My only living invert is a tiny blue hermit...

We had two Cleaner Shrimp for six weeks. One was almost 2” the other about 1.25”. They were healthy, eating fine and molting regularly. This week they both died. I have kept Cleaner Shrimp in the past with great success and am a bit at a loss as to their demise. The smaller of the two vanished...

With everyone trying their hardest to QT, dip, and keep parameters perfect, it still can happen. Pests! Maybe bristle worms, Aiptasia, flatworms, or hair algae. The question what do YOU use for that unexpected nuisance? there are a lot of short term cures but what would you want to put and KEEP...

This morning I've been at my desk watching a Pederson's anemone shrimp cleaning my sailfin blenny. The blenny is sitting still. It briefly got annoyed and swam off but she came right back to the same spot and the Pederson's is back at work. I didn't know they'd act as cleaner shrimp. It's a lot...

Hi , just wanting some input from anyone who has experience owning or who knows about this type of angelfish ? (Heralds angelfish) So I think my angelfish is killing my skunk shrimp .... the cleaner shrimp have been in the tank for two months with no issues both of the shrimp suddenly died 2...

Lol first time this has happened to me, my cleaner shrimp has some algae on him. Has anybody seen this before? Is it healthy? Lol is he lazy to clean it off? Hopefully he molts soon

I have a 30 gallon aquarium and have had 2 clowns and a cleaner shrimp (along with some corals) for about a year. Last week we decided to add an anemone to the tank, and it seems to be doing alright overall (one of the clowns has even shown pretty consistent interest in the nem). My issue is...

My skunk cleaner goes absolutely crazy each and every time I feed. He is upside down, dancing all over the tank grabbing bites -- at least until the clowns chase him back. So is he starving or is this just typical behavior? How does your feed?

I have a couple of fish that seem to want to be cleaned by my cleaner shrimp, show up where the two of them hang out and flash for them. the cleaner shrimp don't care to clean them or anything. this has been going on for a few months, and I haven't found ich, or disease on the fish, I think it's...

Before the addition of my Valentini Puffer, my cleaner shrimp would roam the tank with my 2 clownfish and all was well. Then when I added my Valentini Puffer, the shrimp now hides between two rocks and seems to have lost all his antennas (rn they are all very small).