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06-10-2007, 07:59 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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Coral Banded Shrimp Not Reef Safe?
I got a few new inhabitants today, a favia brain, and an open brain. As soon as I put the open brain in the bottom of the tank, my coral banded shrimp came treking out. I watched really closely and right in front of me he reached out a claw and picked a piece of the flesh from the open brain and put it in his mouth. Someone please tell me he was just confused. Has anyone else ever had a coral banded shrimp pick at their corals?
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06-10-2007, 08:05 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: caledonia MN
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I have a coral banded and a open brain, plus other corals and have never seen him take a bite... |
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06-10-2007, 08:07 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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I've been having trouble with something eating my zoas lately. I had to relocate all of them to the sump so they can heal and until I can figure out who the culprit is. After seeing the coral banded do what it just did to the open brain, I am wondering if he took out the zoas also.
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06-10-2007, 08:08 PM
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Carpe Noctem
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Western Colorado
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I would suspect that there was damaged tissue or just some stuff on it. My shrimp come out anytime I put something new in the tank and give it a good once over... Watch him for a couple days, but I suspect that it is no big deal 
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06-10-2007, 08:16 PM
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Pinch That Penny
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Redmond Oregon
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I've never seen a coral banded pick at coral. Not saying it doesn't happen, i've just never seen it
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06-10-2007, 08:24 PM
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spaceman spiff
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: south of Dimples
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I've one that goes after my smaller fish. He's been upgraded to the sump.
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06-10-2007, 08:24 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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Okay......well I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he was just picking something totally unrelated to brain coral flesh off of it.
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06-10-2007, 08:29 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Denham Springs, LA
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They are reef safe , never seen one cause trouble before,
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06-10-2007, 09:28 PM
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spaceman spiff
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VWD
They are reef safe , never seen one cause trouble before,
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My bicolor blenny would beg to differ! But you're right, in terms of corals, I've never seen a problem.
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06-11-2007, 04:56 AM
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Dive it, now makin' it
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: North Carolina, USA
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Mine doesnt bother anything either. Maybe something in the brain that he was going for instead. JMO
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06-11-2007, 06:24 AM
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Does he think he a cleaner shrimp? 
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06-11-2007, 06:53 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
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I never seen one hurt corals just help if maybe bad tisues on it.
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06-11-2007, 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by ckusnierek
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CBS is a cleaner and may just be exhibiting his natural behaviour, lacking a moray to 'pick on'. (Not my picture)
A few years ago, my daughter's school science project involved a CBS and "Spotty", our Chainlink Moray. The experiment ended abruptly when Spotty made lunch of the shrimp.  The experiment did prove that animals in captivity don't always behave the same as in the wild.
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06-11-2007, 09:18 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Jersey City, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FishDaddy
CBS is a cleaner and may just be exhibiting his natural behaviour, lacking a moray to 'pick on'. (Not my picture)
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Wow I didn't know they were considered cleaners, but after reading that I looked it up online and you are right, although it says that they very rarely exhibit this behavior in aquariums. Maybe mine is going back to his roots.
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06-11-2007, 11:25 AM
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Saltwater Mom
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Ga
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my cbs was a good cleaner. Not good with other shrimp but fish and corals were fine. A welc did him in tho.
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