cleaner shrimp

[Clownfish Lover]

Hi all,
Need some advise from anyone out there. Just bought a couple of nice corals & sponges for my marine tank. Things were ok for a while, till last few days when I noticed that some of the corals & sponges were being eaten up!! WOndering what is was (thought was some big brittle worm or what). Woke up in the middle of the night to note that the cleaner shrimp was at the corals & sponges. Can anyone please tell me whether these are the stuff they eat? Thought shrimps don't nibble on corals? Now the corals looks "botak" (quite ugly & wasting $$). If need to, will get ride of the shrimp. Cheers.

[kelstorm]

Hi all,
Need some advise from anyone out there. Just bought a couple of nice corals & sponges for my marine tank. Things were ok for a while, till last few days when I noticed that some of the corals & sponges were being eaten up!! WOndering what is was (thought was some big brittle worm or what). Woke up in the middle of the night to note that the cleaner shrimp was at the corals & sponges. Can anyone please tell me whether these are the stuff they eat? Thought shrimps don't nibble on corals? Now the corals looks "botak" (quite ugly & wasting $$). If need to, will get ride of the shrimp. Cheers.


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i seriously doubt the culprit is the shrimp.. cleaner shrimps usually does cleaning of the fishes for parasites and also, seen taking fish food.. but never heard of them attacking corals.. perhaps u would like to see whether are they nibbling and pecking at the corals..

[LiveRock]

Do you have camel shrimps?
I saw mine last night on top of my green polys and this morning, the polys are like being trimmed

[Spiff]

camel shrimps eat polyps!

[Clownfish Lover]

Hi,
Do not have a camel shrimp. Seen my cleaner a couple of times on either my sponges or corals nibbling. Btw, will any of those brittle worms be eating up the corals? Cheers.

[jovian]

cleaner shrimp wont nib at corals. they just go disturb them only.
my cleaner shrimp always like to disturb my suncorals openup.

[Clownfish Lover]

Thanks for the comment. Any idea who might be the culprit, cos i believe there are 1 or 2 big worms living inside the LRs. HOw to get rid of them without disturbing much of the env? (my tank is pretty much decorated) Thanks.

[kelstorm]

i only know that bristleworms will bore into the clams.. but i dun know whether will they take to the polyps... watch the shrimps and see whether does it nibble on the polyps...if so, it has developed a taste for them...