Fire shrimp eating coral?

FreeEnergyReefer · Apr 1, 2021

Wow! I haven't seen anything remotely close to that in 20years, I've had soo many reefs from a 2.5g to a 220g. Right now they're in a 75g inhabitants include- pair of fire shrimp w/ 1 candycane pistol,pair of yellow watchman gobies, pair of mandarins,pair of clowns, sailfin tang, fairy wrasse,orange linkia starfish,sandsifting starfish,2 blue tuxedo urchins, other cuc. The female fire shrimp stays out in the open 24/7 n has a cleaning station setup. The male's out half the day hides the other half. I spot feed all my lps fauna marin pellets and broadcast homemade & frozen. Theres nothing but high end sps,lps n zoas in this tank and I wouldn't have any other cleaner shrimp in there exept them

Fairies2 · Feb 28, 2022

I watched my fire shrimp attack my aussie holy grail torch, he was trying to steal the food even though I already fed him. My tank only has 2 clown fish, 1 diamond goby, him and my torch that he killed! I bought 2 cheap corals later, a hammer and frog spawn but he did the same to them. I should of got rid of him but the damage was already done so now for the last 2 years I've had no corals in my tank.
Just a note my 2 clown fish will not have anything to do with him, I don't know if that's why he attacked my corals and no I don't have any videos but I was awake and saw him and tried to move him off but he kept coming back.

Ahmed Talib · May 16, 2024

I think the problem with this shrimp is when your coral gets a little sick, it might recover itself, but shrimp notice it and start eating it flush make it more infected and sick, and then it ends up dying

TeamAquaSD · May 22, 2024

Bongo Shrimp said:
The shrimp didn't kill it and would not kill a healthy coral. This coral was severely weakened or already dead when the shrimp started to pick at it. Cleaner shrimp are scavengers and, well, cleaners. They are not predatory to corals.

I agree with this post.
99.9% of the time if a invert eats a coral it is generally becuase they are starving to death and that is the only thing that is edible or if a coral is dying already.