Does your cleaner shrimp do this?

fretfreak13

fretfreak13

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I would love to get a video of this and show you guys, cause I think it's soo cool! I have a skunkback cleaner shrimp named Hernando (lol), and when I out flakes in my tank to feed my little clowns, he climbs/swims (you know that thing they do with their underside) up to the top, swims upsidedown, picks the floating flakes from the top and stuffs them into his mouth while he's upsidedown.
I never studied these much before getting one, since I knew they were easy to care for, but is this normal or do I just have a crazy cleaner? Love him so much, problaby more than my fish.
 
gio28

gio28

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mine does this too, very funny. if the flakes or food dosent sink he will actually stand upside down on the waters surface like a person standing on the ceiling...idk how he does it!?
 
meowzer

meowzer

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YUP, they have to eat too :)
What do you feed besides flakes.....they would benefit from some meaty foods too, like frozen mysis, marine cuisine...etc....
 
fretfreak13

fretfreak13

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Aw, I thought I had a special crazy one. xD It's still awesome though, I think he confuses my little clowns. I can imagine their WTF faces. lol I don't feed anything else yet. I'm planning to, but haven't really asked my dad to get me some different kinds of foods. Are those the cubbed kinds? I feed my freshies frozen cubes. How often do you feed, Meowzer? All I have are the two clowns who actually get fish food, and they're babies. They're smaller than my pinky finger, and a lot of their food gets sucked into the overflow when I feed so I try not to feed too much as a waste of food and because they're so small.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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YES, I am talking the frozen cubes...I feed every morning.
for your 2 fish, I think 1/2 a cube would be plenty.....
 
junglejeff1

junglejeff1

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I feed an assortment of frozen foods....Mysis, Brine, Bloodworm, Cyclops etc...I feed with an extended eye dropper or long baster. I thaw the cubes in a shot glass (most of us have at least one) with aquarium water. Then I feed what they will consume for 5 minutes. If some goes to the bottom I will not put more in until someone gets it. If there is any food left I put it in the fridge and feed it the next day. I feed the fish not the tank!
 
fretfreak13

fretfreak13

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Ok, that makes perfect since. This is kind of a dumb question, but are the bloodworks you feed the exact same as you would feed to freshwater fish? I have a "Freshwater Multi-Pack" of food which has four different kinds of cubes of food in there. One is stright bloodworms, can I feed that?
 
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