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03/09/2008, 08:31 PM | #1 |
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Fire shrimp and clown fish?
Well I finaly get some inhabitants for my 28 gal tank, I have 2 brown saddle clowns and the bigger of the 2 is giving my fire shrimp a rough time it seems, no real damage so far luckily. It seems like it's just smacking the shrimp with its tail and the shrimp jumped on it a few times. Is this normal? and is it going to keep going tilll just 1 is left?
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03/09/2008, 08:58 PM | #2 |
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I have a clown & fire shrimp also....not really any problems any more....at first I did see the clown kinda go after the shrimp, but the shrimp just went into the rocks to hide.
But now the shrimp goes any where he wants & the clown doesn't even mess with him any more......I think it was just a new territory thing
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On a scuba dive in the Cayman Islands, I kept thinking.........Why is that Fish getting bigger.........Then it hit me Current Tank Info: 7 years saltwater.. Setting up a 120 gal reef. Office BioCube 14...1 perc clown, 1 royal gramma, 1 six line wrasse, fire shrimp, cleaner shrimp, green stripe, brown shrooms, coco worm, purple leather, Misc CUC |
03/09/2008, 09:22 PM | #3 |
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The shrimp is still out in the open, and it was added a few weeks after the clown fish. The little 1 goes over and just hangs around so I'm guessing it's curiousity and a little territorial I guess. I just don't want to lose my favorite/most expensive thing in the tank so soon.
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03/09/2008, 09:31 PM | #4 |
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They will get along. I have two clowns and a fire shrimp. It actually was a problem for a few days after I added the shrimp with the royal gramma. They both wanted the same area of the cave.
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03/09/2008, 09:36 PM | #5 |
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Just tell the shrimp to step on the clowns big red shoes.....lol lol
Just joking around............they will be fine
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On a scuba dive in the Cayman Islands, I kept thinking.........Why is that Fish getting bigger.........Then it hit me Current Tank Info: 7 years saltwater.. Setting up a 120 gal reef. Office BioCube 14...1 perc clown, 1 royal gramma, 1 six line wrasse, fire shrimp, cleaner shrimp, green stripe, brown shrooms, coco worm, purple leather, Misc CUC |
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