Cleaning house

[spiked09]

Now that my tank is a few months old and I have learned the hard way not to listen to my LFS I have decided to rid my tank of all predators that I have placed in my tank. I have lost numerous fish and arrow crabs in the past month (4 in the last week!) and it's time to clean house.
I am going to get rid of my Banded Coral Shrimp and my Decorator crab, they are both quite large. I also have a purple lobster hiding somewhere in the tank but I highly doubt I would ever catch him. I would to be able to get rid of him as I am 90% he is killing things, any secrets of the trade to finding and catching him other then ripping my tank apart?
I also have two fairly large skunk cleaner shrimps which I really don't think are doing any harm. Are these shrimp known to kill fish? Even if they get big? Mine are probably 2.5-3" long.
Any and all advice welcome.

 

[fishy7]

It is very hard to get solid advice from a LFS. They are in it for the $. Sorry to hear you learned the hard way.
The coral and decorator should be fairly easy to net them out. The lobster, need to look at night with a flashlight to see where he is hiding. Then you can pull the rock and scoop him out.

Skunk & cleaner are fine.
Good luck.

 

[bacia]

I have two very large Coral Banded shrimp in my 75 and they seem to be no problem. Have you caught yours doing something to the fish? I read that rarely they will clean fish just like the skunk shrimp will. Mine don't. They just walk around like they own the place but I've never seen them hurt anything. I am starting to wonder about the pistol shrimp. I also have two skunk/cleaner shrimp in there and a fire shrimp.

 

[spiked09]

I haven't actually seen my banded coral attack anything. He lunges at things once in a while but nothing serious (that I have seen anyways).
I am just getting tired of seeing my fish with their tails 1/2 bitten off or dead and not knowing which invert is doing it. Very frustrating. I am just thinking that if I eliminate everything with large claws and the potential to kill I won't have to worry about it anymore and I can stop buying expensive fish every month to replace the ones that have been killed.
I am sure the cleaner shrimp are fine, they don't have claws so to speak. The banded coral, my decorator crab and purple lobster are a different story though.
The thing is I NEVER see the lobster anyways, the decorator only comes out a night and I will probably get another very small banded coral with the pretence of trading him once he's too big. That is unless my fish are all large enough that it won't matter how big he is, then he can stay.