Cant seem to keep CB shrimp alive

[kurtymac]

I was having a bristle worm problem so i decided to buy some Coral banded shrimp. One died in like 4 hours and the secound died within 4 days. I have a pepperment shrimp and a cleaner shrimp that have been alive for months now. Any ideas of what the problem could be? I have a lg Maroon Clown who i saw messing with them. Could he be killing them? However he never attacks the cleaner or the pepperment. Thanks guys

 

[nycbob]

how big is the tank? if ur cleaner and peppermint r ok, then perhaps its the clownfish. if the clownfish is used to having the 2 shrimps, it will attack any newcomers. cb shrimp is considered very hardy.

 

[kurtymac]

Its a 55 gallon. Yea im suprised he is a bit of a bully. I just dont want to point fingers if it wasnt him. I put the pepperment in at the same time i put one of the CB's in.

 

[aqua_scaping]

Did you also know that the cb shrimp will kill other shrimp so it probably was your clown defending the normal cleaner crew

 

[kurtymac]

oh wow i did not know that. Thank you that was very useful information. I guess CB is just not for me right now hahah.

 

[kurtymac]

yea my cleaner shrimp always seems to hang around him ahha. Maybe thats what it was. Its kind of cool and a bad way