Cleaner Shrimp ATTACK Blue Tang ??

[KennethNg]

Bought a small cure little blue tang today. Put it into my tank and to my horror , 1 of my 2 inches long cleaner shrimp jump on top of the tang and grab it with all its legs. It hold on to the tang for around 10 second and the blue tang swim away. This happened few times in last 1 hr. Should i remove the shrimp or it is normal ?

[SpiderOne]

are ur cleaners starving??

[FuEl]

My cleaner shrimp jumps on my yellow tang's face whenever it can get the chance to... Evil thing!

Anyway... Ever noticed how anemone shrimps jump from one rock to another? Reminds you just of the movie 'Matrix'.

[Clownfish]

Check for injuries/abnormalities on ur blue tang.... ur CS may just be targeting these area....

Blue tangs dun realli associate with CS to clear their ICK n i dun realli think that a healthy blue tang would give any chance to let a CS to prounce in them?

[KennethNg]

are ur cleaners starving??

Starving ? How offen you feed your fish ? I feed my 3 cleaner shrimp a cube of frozen shrimp a day, is it enough ?

[SpiderOne]

i dun feed mine at all. i dont know what they eat.

[FuEl]

Hard to say...my yellow tang really has a problem recognising cleaners. It has approached my yellow watchman goby for cleaning services...my blue spiny lobster...and even my boxing crab....lucky so far I don't think my crab has punched the YT with its anemones yet.

[Rufff]

My CS dun really do any cleaning (lazy buggers), just stay in the tank looking pretty . I dun feed them anything special either, they eat whats leftover frm the clowns. So far CS haven't attacked any of the other fishes but they did try 2 attack a turbo snail B4 (which died eventually of other causes).

[oshkosh]

Don't have such a problem with my CS.

Over enthusiastic perhaps.

[KennethNg]

Anyway, i'm monitoring the situation, especially when i just added new fish to my tank. Glad to wake up and see my tang is swimming around my PH.

Meanwhile will feed my new tang galic and healthy food for the next 2 week to build up its immune system.

[giantbicycle]

i dun feed mine at all. i dont know what they eat.

Ya me too , what does clearner shrimp eats . i did not feed then since the day i bought is it okiee