Hawaii 4 line wrasse ate my cleaner shrimp

[reefy]

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?

[crimper]

do you still want to shoot your wrase?

[reefy]

Originally Posted by crimper

do you still want to shoot your wrase?

hahaha

[Frogger]

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]

4, 6 and 8 line wrasse are known to be territorial and have been known to kill fish, coral and inverts

User beware

[gregzz4]

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.