Camel shrimp

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swolf

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Hi people,
First post on a great site!
I have a tank that has just cycled and apart from some tiny hermits I only have a Camel shrimp in there at the moment. Since buying it I have read some bad things about this shrimp and am just after some advice please. The tank has some live rock but I don't plan (yet) on keeping any corals, anemones etc. Was wondering if this shrimp will be a danger to any of my fish when I get some in there. Some of the fish may be half the size of the shrimp and I know they are primarily scavengers but am a bit worried about it trying to catch a little meal whilst the fish are sleeping.
Thanks for your advice,
steve
 
Thank you for the compliment and welcome to a.c. ! Well, it shouldn't eat fish but, any sesile invert you add except of some of the anemones are fair game.
 
Thanks for that, will just have to keep it fish-only until he dies . To be honest I don't think I am experienced enough or dedicated to start a full on reef tank just yet, anything I put in my tank I want it to live a long time. It's so tempting when you see a lovely coral or sponge to buy it and hope I have the know-how to be able to look after it properly, but I will resist! After all, fishes are what I really love.
 
I just realized that my camel shrimp must be the reason my mushrooms disappeared. I had a small colony of mushrooms that came up mising one at a time until they were all gone. I checked the water parameters and everything was consistent. The camel shrimp also ate a nice little Halimedia(sp?) plant that grew on my LR when I first got it. I guess I will also have to wait for the shrimp to die or move it to another tank if I want to grow mushrooms.
 
You might both be waiting a few years. They can live for a while . Fwiw, if I were planning a reef I'd do something about them.
hth
Max
 
Well since posting this I have noticed that one of my 2 aiptasia has mystereously disappeared :-) So long live the Camel Shrimp!!!
 
I added a peppermint shrimp to my 20 gallon about 2 weeks ago and it has eaten all of the aiptasia (10 or 12 medium sized polyps). I've never had any aiptasia in my other tank with the camel shrimp, so I guess they might eat it as well.

I would like to add some new mushrooms to my 30 gallon, and am thinking about moving the camel shrimp into the 20g with the peppermint shrimp. Would these two species be OK together?
 
I'd be pretty surprised if you had any problems . On the off chance that you do you can always move the pepermints to the 30 gal. You'll want to use standard invert accimation percautions by the way.
hth
Max
 
I have a Valentini Toby in my 30 gallon, and I know (from experience) it will eat the peppermint shrimp. Strangely the puffer doesn't bother the camel shrimp. I think that it leaves the shrimp alone because the shrimp was in the tank first and is a good bit larger than the peppermints. I catch grass shrimp every few weeks and feed them to the puffer, so anything added to the tank is considered dinner.

I think I will just put both species in my 20 gallon and work on reefin' up my 30g (I miss my poor 'shrooms).
 
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