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Old 03-27-2007, 01:18 PM
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Default Cleaner Shrimp eat Blue Hermits?

Hello all,

I recently bought some blue hermits and after all little while it seemed my cleaner shrimp were cleaning up by eating my blue hermits!!!!!! Is that common? What do I do?
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Old 03-27-2007, 03:43 PM
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hi,
have had blue legged crabs with my cleaner shrimp and it hasn't touched them
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Old 03-28-2007, 07:26 PM
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I called my LFS, the guy said that it is not common for that to happen. Then I mentioned that I purchased them from an online dealer and that a couple of the blue leg hermits didn't make it. Turns out that my cleaner shrimp were just doin their job and cleaning up the remains.

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