jdiver Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 I nuked an aiptasia (about 3/4" head on it) this morning with Kalkwasser and now my cleaner shrimp is chowing down on the remains. Has anyone ever heard of or seen this before? ??? My cleaner didn't go near the aiptasia when it was alive and healthy, but now he's feasting on it like there was no tomorrow. Link to comment
spoondigity Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Cleaners will tend to be scavengers of dead things when the opportunity presents. If you have a snail go, you can bet your cleaner will be trying to get his share of that as well. I had a margarita snail kick the bucket and there was a line to dine including a bumble bee, cerith, , hermit, cleaner, and even an interested gobie. I guess cleaners are a little too wussified to go after large living targets (IME). Link to comment
jdiver Posted February 24, 2003 Author Share Posted February 24, 2003 I've had several snails die and the hermits, bristle worms, and bumblebee snails have feasted on them, but never the cleaner. Maybe his tastes have just become more sophisticated recently, or would that be less sophisticated since it's dead things? Link to comment
spoondigity Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Come to think of it I have had some astrea snails die and never noticed the cleaner after them. Maybe they do have some refined and sophisticated tastes and he only likes margarita snails. Then you kind of stop and consider that we are talking about eating raw decaying dead snail and it becomes hard to imagine one pile of decay tastes better than another. Or maybe I hadn't fed him as much around that time so he went after whatever he could get. Link to comment
KamDesai Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I have heard that Peppermint Shrimp won't go for really large aptasia. They go to town on the smaller stalks though. Maybe when you nuked the big one, it was finally the size for him to eat? Link to comment
Crakeur Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 my peps won't touch the lone aiptasia in the tank but they seem to be scoping out my zoos. Link to comment
KamDesai Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Mine took out the aptasia I had, but now lives right near the zoos. He is always walking over them but I haven't gathered enough evidence to yank him from the tank. Link to comment
Crakeur Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I'll never get mine out unless I put in a shrimp eater. My only other hope would be if the bta took them out. so far I think they are leaving the zoos alone but they sure do spend a lot of time walking around them and picking at the rocks. Link to comment
KamDesai Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Same here. But, I have found that if I dangle some food around his cave, he comes right out to eat, so I am pretty sure I could grab him if I needed to. Link to comment
caja Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I know I've said this before, but I had a pep that was eating my yellow polyps. I caught him with polyp in claw...munching away. Needless to say, he was taken out of the tank. Link to comment
Crakeur Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 they eat zoos. it's been proven Link to comment
Angel Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I guess that I have been lucky with my peps then. They have never touched my zoos, but do eat between them (on the rock area) frequently. I also think that my two have the best personality also I did try to add star polyps and a larger Hawaiian feather duster one time, huge mistake. They were on it like stink on s---! Again, that was my error as I should have known better. I never tried to add yellow polyps to that tank, because I have heard that they go after them voraciously, like aiptasia. Link to comment
Crakeur Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I think the yellow polyps are too similar in appearance to the aiptasia. I've heard they go after anything polyp like. they are small brained, after all Link to comment
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