Cleaner Crews!

[kraziworm83]

Hi bros,

Name ur favourite combination...

Mine: 2 ft tank.

1 halloween hermit

1 electri blue hermit

1 dwarf zebra hermit

1 orange star

1 snail

1 camel shrimp

2 cleaner shrimp

haha mine tank is more like a invertebrate tank....

[CKS]

Hi

i didnt seem to have luck with having hermit and snail together

so heres my favorite

3ft tank

1 donkey dung sea cuke

4 trochus snails

X bristle worms

ive read that star/shrimp/hermit will actaully kill off benificial sand/rock dweller..so i'll stay away from them

[nakazoru]

My Sem Corp of my tank:

2 turbo snail

1 algase blenny

1 Myself

Anyway, what does your cleaner shrimp clean???

My skunk only eats flakes and tries to clear parasites that my fishes do not have.

[kraziworm83]

hmmm my cleaner shrimp seem to b v 'busy' i will always c the 2 cleaner goin from left to right then right to left... they always try to find leftover food or clean my fish.. or when i clean my tank they will come to 'clean' my hand..

[cornyfish]

For me, my cleaning crew are:

1) 2 skunk cleaner shrimps

2) 3 pistol shrimps

3) 1 small red crab

4) 1 porcelain anemone crab

They help to finish off the small bits of food left behind by my fishes, while the porcelain anemone crab helps to eat up the tiny bits of food particles suspended in the water.

[Flame-Tail]

For me, my cleaning crew are:

1) 2 skunk cleaner shrimps

2) 3 pistol shrimps

3) 1 small red crab

4) 1 porcelain anemone crab

do the pistol shrimps disturb your fish?

[Flame-Tail]

hmmm my cleaner shrimp seem to b v 'busy' i will always c the 2 cleaner goin from left to right then right to left... they always try to find leftover food or clean my fish.. or when i clean my tank they will come to 'clean' my hand..

so cute. My cleaner shrimp used to do that but now it's gone. Think it was attacked just after it molted by my golden maron clown then fell into the anemone which swallowed it up.

I saw the molted shell just above the rock where the anemone was situated.

[cowbox]

My 2 ft tank helpers:

1 coral banded shrimp

1 cleaner shrimp

2 electric blue hermits

1 sand shifting star

5 dwaft zebra hermits(in my refudge)

unknown no of magarita snails( hard working fellows on my tank walls, the nos seem to be controled by my hermits)

And yes, the cleaner shrimp likes to "clean" my hands too when im cleaning the glass

[kraziworm83]

My 2 ft tank helpers:

1 coral banded shrimp

1 cleaner shrimp

2 electric blue hermits

1 sand shifting star

5 dwaft zebra hermits(in my refudge)

unknown no of magarita snails( hard working fellows on my tank walls, the nos seem to be controled by my hermits)

And yes, the cleaner shrimp likes to "clean" my hands too when im cleaning the glass

So does ur boxer attack ur cleaner? Eat them up..?

[zephyros]

My crews for my footer

1 lawnmower blenny

3 brittles star

30+ assorted snails

2 hermit crabs

3 sally lightfoot

4 cleaner shrimp

2 tiger tail cuke (1 big 1 small)

1 signal or twin-spot goby juz RIP <<< pls dun buy this fish strave to death

[zarkon]

My crews for my footer

1 lawnmower blenny

3 brittles star

30+ assorted snails

2 hermit crabs

3 sally lightfoot

4 cleaner shrimp

2 tiger tail cuke (1 big 1 small)

1 signal or twin-spot goby juz RIP <<< pls dun buy this fish strave to death

Bro,

You hermit never 'makan' the snails?

[kraziworm83]

Bro,

You hermit never 'makan' the snails?

Hermit usually only eat up the hermit when they new a bigger shell... so if u big some bigger empty shell they will live happily with the snail. My hermit even climb on the snail shell to clean the shell for them.

[cornyfish]

Oh no, they don't.. anyway the only fishes i keep in that tank are 2 perculas and a yashia goby, which shares his cave with a tiger pistol shrimp.

My pistol shrimps are very docile, never see them fight or disturb other creatures.. they just click click whenever they happen to bump into each other

[Flame-Tail]

whew..I hope you're right as i can hear clicking sometimes in my tank and i don't know where it's coming from.

[zephyros]

no ... din see them tekan the snail ... maybe they have enuff to eat

and dun need to "hunt"

[spoon]

hi.

i watched a documentary in animal planet seeing a pistol shrimps attack other shrimps. the clicking is their secret weapons of immobilise their prey before kena makan.

[cornyfish]

hi.

i  watched a documentary in animal planet seeing a pistol shrimps attack other shrimps. the clicking is their secret weapons of immobilise their prey before kena makan.

Hmmm.. i never had the experience of the pistol shrimps attacking my other shrimps.. They are usually busy digging and bulldozing the sand around their burrows most of the time when i look at them.. Seems to me that the clicking is more as a form of self defence or identification (eg. when they bump into each other or when one of my perculas peck at the shrimp to snatch the food the shrimp is eating).

Rather its my boxer shrimp that keeps harassing everyone in the tank.