Hawaii 4 line wrasse ate my cleaner shrimp
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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do you still want to shoot your wrase? :lol:
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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. |
4, 6 and 8 line wrasse are known to be territorial and have been known to kill fish, coral and inverts
User beware |
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. |
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.
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The result for me has been a more aggressive fish who's POd and the target ends up getting it worse !! |
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
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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. |
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