Re: Peppermint shrimp

"AH" <2diyers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:SHVCf.4278$Ix.3351@xxxxxxxxxxx
I don't have a peppermint shrimp, but my skunk cleaner eats my stomatellas and sand sifting snails. If he finds one on his journeys through the rocks he'll pry it off the rock, flip it over and dig it out of the shell. I've watched him do it several times. My stomatella population has decreased dramatically. 

Small snails and limpets, which do not have operculum (the door) can
become prey to shrimps and I have seen this in my tank too (limpets).
The same applies to varies worms - shrimps eat them, pick them from rocks.

But bigger snails, the ones with operculum like astrea or turbos
are safe. Shrimp will try to nibble on them, but gets quickly bored
with the snail closed in his shell. Other situation is with the snail
sick/dying, which is too weak to defend itself... But it would die anyway.
Shrimp could only speed up the process.

I am also missing a redheaded goby and my cleaner shrimp is the prime suspect. The shrimp used to chase the goby and it
was not cleaning activity. This shrimp is predatory. 

Fish otherhand, is too smart and too fast to get eaten alive by shrimp.
.

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