darn cleaner shrimp

[feixjai]

how do you guys feed your anemones without your cleaner shrimp digging out the food from the anemone

. everytime i feed my anemone krill and its inside its mouth the cleaner shirmp would come along and take it out right out of his mouth. so i have to stand there for around 20 minutes using a plastic stick trying to get the shrimp away. what do you guys when they it comes to feeding your anemone and having cleaner shrimp?

 

[viper_930]

Feed the cleaner shrimp on the other side of the tank. That should keep him busy for a while.

 

[feixjai]

thanks for you suggestion but never works. i tried it today. so i fed my fish live blood worms which the cleaner shrimp goes crazy over. they finished that so i start hand feeding my cleaner shrimps with flakes. after that i got a piece of krill and feed my anemone. around 2 minutes later my cleaner shrimp was near the anemone spying on it. so i had to stand there with a stick for about 10 minutes until the anemone was done and around 5 minutes to make sure that the cleaner shrimp dont mess with it and dig it out.
thanks again for your suggestion

 

[dmitry]

Another solution is to make a "dome" to cover the anemone while it's feeding. I use one to keep phytoplankton from spreading when feeding my small clam. But the same principle would apply. I use half of an apple juice bottle. You should probably cut holes in it to keep water circulating. The shrimp won't be able to get in to steal the food!

 

[booduh]

I regularly feed my anenomes silversides, but the heads having little to no value, I feed the cleaner a head before I feed the anenomes. The cleaner goes nuts, picking it apart piece by piece for well over half an hour. He even picks apart the bones into tiny pieces. I have no idea why he does this, but it keeps him happy while the anenomes get fed.

 

[nazz13]

Anyone ever had a cleaner shrimp pick at a clam .