Cleaner Shrimp Behaviour!

[miaheatlvr]

My C.S. spends 90% of his time hanging out at the base of my L.T.A. Im wondering if anybody knows if this is instinct? and they hang out there in the wild to try to shelter themselves from predatory fish? OR maybe hes waiting for my L.T.A. to exspell some waste to eat or what? Kind Regards

 

[reefreak29]

cs will stay at thyere sellected cleaning posts that they have chosen ,prob just coinsidence

 

[flcandy]

Mine come out and take over the tank at night. Other than that I never see them out of the cave the have taken from the damsels.

 

[miaheatlvr]

Originally Posted by FlCandy
Mine come out and take over the tank at night. Other than that I never see them out of the cave the have taken from the damsels.
You might be thinking about your blood shrimp, they are always in the darkness, the cleaners not as much.

 

[am00re34]

my fire shrimp hangs out with my anenome as well. unfortantly my anemone is behind all my rock where you can't see it. my 2 most amazing things behind the rock...
GO FIGURE!

 

[flcandy]

Originally Posted by MiaHeatLvr
You might be thinking about your blood shrimp, they are always in the darkness, the cleaners not as much.
Nope most def cleaner shrimp, they are the only ones that I have in my tank. They come out everyonce in a while during the day but like the dark as I have a wrasse and the devil damsels.