Shocked!

[suzi1780]

I had to stick my hand in my hand and fix a rock and all of a sudden my fire shrimp lept out of his hiding hole and cleaned my hand! How cute! I have heard of skunk shrimp doing this but not fire.

 

[toughguy80]

LoL, cool! Try to get a pic next time if you can.

 

[viper_930]

Coral banded shrimp, skunk cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, and fire shrimp all do cleaning.

 

[bluegirl]

How cute! That probably would have spooked me though at first. :happyfish

 

[harndog]

My p shrimp do it everytime I am in the tank playing around. I would be scared of the CBS them dudes have some pinchers

 

[aw2]

I have pics, around here somewhere, of when I used to work at a fish store that my friend owns.
They kept small hermits in the same tank as their Peppermint Shrimp.
Everytime I'd stick my hand in the tank, to get hermits, I'd get attacked by 15 Peppermint Shrimp. Freaked me out, at first.

 

[suzi1780]

I did scare me for a sec. I will try and get a pic. It really just tickled! I tested him and stuck my hand back down a couple of times and he did it everytime. NO way would I want a cbs jumping on me!

 

[farmboy]

Why did you stick a dirty hand in your tank to begin with?

 

[sw-newbe]

Originally Posted by ViPeR_930
Coral banded shrimp, skunk cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, and fire shrimp all do cleaning.

The only thing my CBS is good for is eating my other shrimp! I really need to get him out of the tank

 

[suzi1780]

to fix a rock

i didn't know I had yummy parasites

 

[farmboy]

I've seen cleaners at the LFS hitching a ride on a yellow tang while giving it the "once- over." Funny stuff!

 

[mudplayerx]

My CBS gets really close to my hand when I stick it in the tank and waves his pinchers around menacingly, but never actually pinches me. It's pretty funny.... and my girlfriend really enjoys how he always tries to start stuff.
The CBS are cleaner shrimp in nature, but I've never seen mine do anything but cruise around the tank and occasionally try to catch a saron shrimp.