Cleaner shrimp “cleaning hands”

[Kapachuka3]

I have recently got a cleaner shrimp and now whenever i have my hand in the tank (which is not very often). The shrimp follows it and when I let it the shrimp cleans and picks under my fingernails and crawls up my arm. Does anybody know what its actually eating or doing. I am aware they eat parasites on fish but what is this?

 

[Kasrift]

I have recently got a cleaner shrimp and now whenever i have my hand in the tank (which is not very often). The shrimp follows it and when I let it the shrimp cleans and picks under my fingernails and crawls up my arm. Does anybody know what its actually eating or doing. I am aware they eat parasites on fish but what is this?

Cleaning dead skin, like they would scales on a fish I believe. Just looking for things to pick off even if they don't find it. Mine does this all of the time.

 

[stoney7713]

Cleaning dead skin, like they would scales on a fish I believe. Just looking for things to pick off even if they don't find it. Mine does this all of the time.

It's one of the fun things to do with your tank IMO! Tried to get my wife to do it, free manicure but she wouldn't. Save me $75 ....

 

[Kapachuka3]

It's one of the fun things to do with your tank IMO! Tried to get my wife to do it, free manicure but she wouldn't. Save me $75 ....

Haha, its very fun to do, i just got my brother to do it and i am going to see if my sister wants to.

 

[Geebs19]

The aquarium here has a tank with a ton of cleaner shrimp for the kids to stick their hands in. It’s pretty comical to watch.

 

[Kapachuka3]

The aquarium here has a tank with a ton of cleaner shrimp for the kids to stick their hands in. It’s pretty comical to watch.

Thats awesome, ive seen videos of that.