territorial cleaner shrimps

[h2o]

i introduced 2 smaller cleaners today (acutally midnight 1am) when lights are all off. I even fed my existing cleaner shrimps first, and same to rest of hermits. 5 minutes later with a flash light i see my 2 old big cleaners are chasing and fighting my new ones. i didn't know cleaners are territorial too. i wonder if this fight will continue, or will they get along.

 

[h2o]

well, since noone responded, one of the new one got killed by the existing bigger cleaner shrimps, the other one is still being chased. too bad.

 

[scorpio24]

how big is your tank? if it is small then you have put to many shrimp in and should take it out ammediately other wise it will die to . The shrimp are very territorial and will kill any intruder. You should of asked you pet store if it was male or female because only males attack males so thiers ya problem.

 

[aceiswild7]

when i first got my pair of cleaner shrimp after they decided where they were setting up home they killed an anemone that was close to them.. i would just see them picking at it sometimes because it was to close.. i caughtit too late though

 

[dinhouse]

Each cleaner shrimp is both male and female.

 

[byrself]

i did some reading here recently on breeding shrimp, and if i remember correctly, the --- of the shrimp is almost undistiguishable. here's a read on that ..<a href="http://saltaquarium.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breeders-registry.gen.ca.us%2Fcgi-bin%2Fswishsearch.pl%3FLysmata" target="_blank">web page</a>