elegance coral eats shrimp

• Nov 17, 2011

• #1

C

cms

Reefing newb

How common is for an elegance coral to eat a cleaner shrimp? My elegance swallowed the whole shrimp, all I could see was the antennaes and the very top of the head, till it eventually disappeared. Is this normal behavior?

 

• Nov 17, 2011

• #2

jcegt87

Dude Dude DUDE!!!!!!

i wouldnt doubt it especially if its incredibly hungry, but are you sure it the actually cleaner shrimp and not a molt?

LPS corals have sticky tentacles for the most part that can and will grab whatever they want

 

• Nov 17, 2011

• #3

sen5241b

Reef enthusiast

The Creature from the Black Lagoon

 

• Nov 17, 2011

• #4

Smitty

Reef pro

It's very common...hopefully the shrimp wasn't that dumb, and it was actually his molt.

 

• Nov 17, 2011

• #5

C

cms

Reefing newb

I'm pretty sure, I had bought 4 cleaner shrimp, lost two, and now I can only find one. The funny thing is that the elegance was looking pretty bad a couple of days before it ate the shrimp, don't even know how it managed to catch it. Here is a picture of what it looked like

 

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• Nov 17, 2011

• #6

jcegt87

Dude Dude DUDE!!!!!!

wow thats a pretty ellegance, also in order for it to not mess with your shrimp you may want to spot feed it, once in a while