Dottyback killed my cleaner shrimp!

[Denniszz]

I added a cleaner shrimp into my tank, within 1 hr, eaten by my dottyback...

 

how one to prevent it? Wanted to keep cleaner shrimp again... 

[Denniszz]

This show ok to have both. 

[F&Mfishlover]

Dottybacks r known to Attack shrimps if I'm not wrong. However, I managed to keep both of them together in my 1 ft tank last time by adding the fish only after the shrimp resided in the tank for a few weeks.

I believe Personality and size of the fish do play a part too..

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[Fragmaster]

Normally cleaner shrimps have immunity to attacks by fishes

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[Jason Ng]

Not mine.. I lost 2 cleaners in a month while trying to add to my dt. My current stock is 1 blue fin damsel, 2 green chromis, 1 tomato n 1 unknown yellow wrasse. When try to introduce the shrimp, it can't last for 2 days, not sure who is the killer

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[DottyClown]

Did you properly acclimatise the shrimp before putting it into your DT?  Shrimps are more sensitive to changes in water parameters, so you need to acclimatise them slowly.

Also, add the shrimp in after lights out, when all other fishes are hiding in their own holes.  Let it have time to search for its own hiding hole first.  This will help alleviate the stress of it being suddenly added into a tank with so many aggressive fishes.

[Jason Ng]

I did acclimatise it for about 1/2 hr but did not wait till lights off.

Will try again n this time release it after light off. Hopefully it can survive. Thanks for your advise DottyClown

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[josephwzr]

I did acclimatise it for about 1/2 hr but did not wait till lights off.

Will try again n this time release it after light off. Hopefully it can survive. Thanks for your advise DottyClown

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I think 30minutes is too short. You should drop acclimate them for at least 45minutes

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[DottyClown]

It may also help if, after acclimatising, you put the shrimp in a breeder box inside the DT.  Wait till lights out then let it out.

These are just some measures you can consider.  But no guarantee it will work

 

 

[Jason Ng]

Thank you bro

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[kohanson]

Dottybacks are very territorial. I used to have the bicolour dottyback and it chased every single fish that goes near him. But my previous dottyback had not killed my cleaner shrimp before. 

[Denniszz]

Maybe i will wait till i get bigger tank than keep cleaner shrimp again...

[DottyClown]

Bro, what is your current tank size?

Maybe i will wait till i get bigger tank than keep cleaner shrimp again...

Maybe you

[DottyClown]

What is you current tank size?

[Denniszz]

What is you current tank size?

Mine is only a nano tank. 30cm by 30cm.

[DottyClown]

The smaller tank size will increase the aggressiveness of the Dottyback. Plus there is no place far enough for the shrimp to hide. Everywhere it goes is still under the Dotty's territory.

[tuajia]

Yeah, 30 by 30 is too small to have anything bigger than 2" in general. If it helps, my super aggressive damsel that was whacking every single creature in my tank still didn't really disturb my 2 cleaners after they claimed a rock on the right end of my 2 feet tank. Bear in my my cleaners were also very aggressive, so maybe that's how everyone maintained a truce? Haha

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