Peppermint Shrimp eating Frog Spawn

[crypt keeper]

Is this normal? My Frog spawn is far from dead. Its actually has gotten bigger since I bought it. I noticed 5 seconds ago the shrimp digging into it and the frogspawn retracting inside as its doing it. What gives?

 

[ninjamini]

Most probably a piece of food that fell in there.

 

[crypt keeper]

It was ripping the frog spawn out, pieces were floating in my tank which scared me because they sting other corals. I have a penny sized area missing now on the left side.. I took the shrimp out. I scared him away then put some food in thinking it was hungry. he went right back at it.

 

[tobbyjackson]

I had one eat a pirce of green birds nest. He went away too(fuge)

 

[fishhunter]

This means there is not enough food inthe tank for it.

 

[ophiura]

Since pep shrimp are often added to eat aiptasia, it does not surprise me when I hear of them eating other similar things I'm afraid It is not much of a leap from Aiptasia to frogspawn, IMO.

 

[gnjeff]

my pep would tear in to my mushrooms sometimes. actually killed one. they like to pick at everything.

 

[hops523]

I actually had a cleaner shrimp for awhile until he got comfortable in the tank. I would feed my coral and even when the coral closed up trying to eat/digest the food he would still try and open them up and get to the food. He went back to the lfs.

 

[crypt keeper]

Originally Posted by fishhunter
http:///forum/post/2896194
This means there is not enough food inthe tank for it.
I have had the shrimp for a while. It has molted 4 or 5 times since I have had it doubling in size. I even stated in the above post I put food in their thinking it was hungry and it went right back to the frog spawn. This was the first time I have seen him do it. I watched him for a little bit to see if it was eating it and it wasnt. It was just ripping what it could out of it.

 

[fishhunter]

What i have herd from people with similer probelms is that the shrimp now has a "taste" for corals. So ya they are a really easy target that is always there. Think about it once it figgers out that they can eat the corals why go and scavange food...