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reefy
09-19-2018, 12:10 AM
Got a small cleaner shrimp yesterday, after a quarantine, I intro diced into my main tank, 2 min after I saw the wrasse chasing my shrimp and cut the shrimp in half with his mouth. My question is why only my cleaner shrimp? I have a pair of sexy shrimp which are smaller. But they are hosting my rock flower anemones, pherhaps that’s why?
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crimper
09-19-2018, 12:24 AM
do you still want to shoot your wrase? :lol:

reefy
09-19-2018, 12:27 AM
do you still want to shoot your wrase? :lol:

hahaha

Frogger
09-19-2018, 12:34 AM
Not sure about 4 line wrasses but 6 line wrasses are very territorial and this could just have been a get out of my territory attack.

I used to have a six line wrasse that I wanted to shoot but he was too fast to catch.

Dearth
09-19-2018, 02:07 AM
4, 6 and 8 line wrasse are known to be territorial and have been known to kill fish, coral and inverts

User beware

gregzz4
09-20-2018, 01:20 AM
I've run across this before. Established shrimp are OK around new fish for me, but newly added shrimps are food.
Try adding the next one after lights out.

Frogger
09-20-2018, 02:34 AM
I saw a video on the web that showed putting a mirror up against one side of the glass when you add new inhabitants allows the new animal to blend in while the established fish actually attack the mirror.

gregzz4
09-20-2018, 03:16 AM
mirror up against one side of the glass
Not a bad idea, but every time I've used a mirror to deflect aggression, all it's done is pee off all the aggressive fish, and the ones that are going after weaker ones still do so.
The result for me has been a more aggressive fish who's POd and the target ends up getting it worse !!

Dearth
09-20-2018, 03:35 AM
I’ve read other posts where people have used breeder boxes to help introduce new stuff into the tank while keeping everyone separated and aggression down

Frogger
09-20-2018, 06:42 AM
I have trained my fish to come into a net to receive food. I have a large Collaspsible fish trap. When I added my last 2 fish I tricked my most aggressive fish (yellow tang) to come into the net scooped him up put him in the fish trap/acclimation tank. Put the new fish (Kole Tang and a Melanarus wrasse) into the tank. After about 10 days let the yellow tang go. A little bit of tail wagging between tangs but the Kole tang had its own territory and wasn't abused. I could have also put food into the trap.

I have also in the past had a couple large pieces of egg crate that I used to divide the tank into 2/3rds and 1/3rd. Does not work any more because my corals have grown into the gap.

Never tried the mirror thing only saw a video.

Moogled
09-21-2018, 04:39 AM
It could just be a matter of time before the 2 sexy shrimp become a meal as well?

Report back in a week please :D

PS: sorry for your loss haha