Dottybacks & Shrimp ?

[serpentar]

Will dottybacks like the neon or fridimani eat or kill my cleaner shrimp. Also will these dottybacks get along with a royal gramma? thanks

 

[reefforbrains]

question 1- Yes, they are notorius for eating shrimp, but size palys into this. Tiny shrimp like sexy or sarron are bad news. But larger cleaners are usually ok as long as the Psudo arent large.
Question 2- No. they are perfect model citizens when alone. Mix two dottys in a tank and as I said in a similar thread I think just yeasterday..........
Dottyback Thunderdome
Two dotty enta....One Dotty leave

 

[reeffreakgeek]

Risky,Dottybacks can eat ornamental crusties like Sexy Shrimp.A Cleaner maybe big enough but still risky.I know you can't mix two Pseudos but whats a Gramma....a basslet.Probably to similar to mix,again risky.

 

[benter]

1 dottyback = 0 shrimp in my opinion...and experience. look at my thread titled "can you identify this guy..looks like meanieassedeatallyourshrimpius to me" and you can see my dottyback story. Good luck though..

 

[azul1994]

if a dottyback eats shrimp, does that mean it eats hermits too?

 

[frankthetank]

I have a dottyback with a coral banded shrimp. Let me preface that my cb shrimp is of considerable size, and the dottyback is the smaller of the two. My dottyback does eye the shrimp often, but never makes a move on him. They have coexisted for 3 or 4 months now.