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DansMarineTank
03-24-2005, 6:30 AM
Just thought i would share my experiance:

I am babysitting a friends yellow tang (2") whilst he is away on holiday, Hes a loverly fish but looked a bit stressed when i first moved him into his tempory home. Anyway with five minutes of being in the tank he started to scope out my, usually very aggressive, Coral Banded shrimp (responsible for 1 fish and one shrimp death) after a further five minutes the CBS started to pin down and thouroughly clean the tang from nose to tail confused:! I was completly unaware that a CBS was a cleaning species. I have some good pics of the event which i hope to post later

Anyways now tang is doing great and now always has his sailfin erect! loverly fish shame to let him go in a weeks time!

SteveD
03-24-2005, 7:35 AM
I would charge your friend for the fish wash!

DansMarineTank
03-24-2005, 7:40 AM
I would charge your friend for the fish wash!

We could go into bussiness ;) ... this time next year we'll be millionaires! :dance

skipm
03-24-2005, 10:32 AM
Shrimp with white antennae are usually cleaners in nature but not all of them will clean in the aquarium due to having much more food readily available at feeding time.