Are CamelBack Shrimp reef safe

[newbie68]

I have 4 Camel Back shrimp that likes to nip on my Mushroom corals and candy corals. Not sure if they are playing on them or eating them. My mushroom corals has since shrible up. Please advise?

 

[mkcsil18]

I had a problem with my shrimp too, I wasn't feeding them, make sure you give them some food, I usually drop in some shrimp pellets every other day, and they do not touch my corals... hope that helps...

 

[am3gross05]

not to steal the thread but is that all shrimp or just camel back?

 

[newbie68]

thx, won't that decrease UR water quality?

 

[latino277]

Sorry to tell you this but.... as far as I know Camel backs are NOT reefsafe!

 

[mkcsil18]

well I tried to feed them a little each night, but have cut it down to every other night, I might even try to cut it back to 2 times a week? see how they do, I am still working on it, but they do not touch my corals anymore..

 

[mkcsil18]

well it was my peppermint shrimp I don;t have camel backs... sorry if I am missleading you, but that was my experience.

 

[duke jjz]

I had camelbacks in my reef and they never touched the corals at all... I guess its hit or miss

 

[newbie68]

Yes, My LFS told me that they are OK with corals. However, I am starting to think otherwise. Its going to be a pain trying to get these little bugger out of my tank.

 

[mkcsil18]

newbie I would try and get some shrimp pellets and see if feeding them every other day will help your situation...? if not then have fun getting them out.. :O

 

[fishfanny79]

Camelbacks are actually not reef safe. I used to have 2 and they ate my yellow polyps. I called my lfs and they gave me a couple bucks for each one...catching them was another story. I have a 90 gallon reef with 140 lbs of lr so they had PLENTY of places to hide and run to when daddy came calling for them. Catching the first was pretty easy actually...I placed a net on the sandbed with a frozen piece of mysis shrimp in it and when he went over to take a bite I just lifted the net up. I ended up catching my peppermint too but just put him back in the tank. Meanwhile my other camelback saw all of this and then hid for a few hours. lol I ended up having to move all of my rock around to get him anyways. (probably should have done that in the first place). So I am no expert, but from my personal expirience, camelbacks are not reef safe.
I have also heard some sort of catching technique involving a 2 liter bottle, but I am not sure how that goes.
HTH