New 50 gal tank advice

jtmaclain

Member
Sorry about the duplicate title. I think my yellow tang thinks that the CBS is a cleaner. He is always backing up to it a then sitting still and letting the shrimp pick at him. He has some fin missing in two spots, will this grow back? Any advice...
 

anthropo

Member
aparently coral banded shrimp do clean fish, the are just not as enthusiastic about doing it as a skunk cleaner shrimp would be.
 

jtmaclain

Member
thanks, I was just worried I would see my tang in the grips of my CB shrimp one morning. As he gets older he seems to be getting a little more aggressive towards fish.
 

anthropo

Member
you will see him getting more and more aggressive the more mature he becomes towards newly introduced fish. a lot of the time though this aggression will subside from the newly introduced fish within a couple days to a week...if it can handle the stress.
 

jtmaclain

Member
The tang and the shrimp have been together for about 3 months and I have just started to notice there strange relationship. Hope the tang relizes the shrimp has big claws.
 
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