Will my Cleaner Shrimp hurt my Yellow Tang? Cleaner Shrimp keeps hanging on him..... Thank you.
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Yellow Tang
- Thread starter navyretiredscott
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So no harm will happen?
No, he is just trying to pick off the dead skin cells and other stuff. If the tang keeps trying to escape he is just not used to it and it’s surprising him. Usually the shrimp set up an area near a ledge to hang out and the fish come over when they want cleaning. My blenny goes to my shrimps cave all the time.
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None whatsoever... my blood fire shrimp hangs onto my Kole tang when he’s in his cave
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As said above no harm. The shrimp is cleaning the fish. The fish at first will not be used to it but once it does it won't mind and will even seek the shrimp out when it needs to be cleaned.
Awesome, can you share so info on two clownfish, one was added 2 weeks ago and another one added at a later date, the first day and night the original Clownfish was being dominant to the new one, chasing and snipping, after that it calm down to every so often.
Clownfish are born gender neutral. They are not male nor female at birth and as juveniles.
If the original one was a larger male, it will become the dominant female, and the 2nd smaller will be the male. But if it was already a female it will remain that way.
The snipping more than likely will be the female asserting her dominance
Make sense?
If the original one was a larger male, it will become the dominant female, and the 2nd smaller will be the male. But if it was already a female it will remain that way.
The snipping more than likely will be the female asserting her dominance
Make sense?
If they keep fighting and the smaller one doesn't give in then the larger one will force it into the corner and stop it from eating. At that point they usually will not become a pair.
I find if you remove the dominant one and place it into a different tank that already had the smaller one your odds are better of them getting along. Then once they get along (sleeping together in the same spot) move them back to the tank you want.
Im no expert and this is just my experience thus far.