HELP! SHRIMP BATTLES IN A BIOCUBE29! HEEELLPPP

Wet Nerd

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I had a fire shrimp 2.75 inches. He chilled under a rock cave. Pretty peaceful, didn't harm anything. Introduced another one, slightly smaller (2.25 inches?) He flips the out. When the shrimp went near his cave, he lunged at it. I made a mini cave for the little one. My larger one also lunged at my pipefish. He never did this before! AAGAGAGAHAGAHGAHAGBA WHAT DO I DO?
 
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DaveK

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This species of shrimp either live alone or as mated pairs. The larger one will likely kill the smaller one, if not today, it will get it when it molts.

What you do is sell, trade or give away one of the shrimp.
 

DaveK

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Shrimp battles :apologetic:

Is this the case for most shrimp? I have kept two cleaners and now have a cleaner and a peppermint and a burrowing/pistol shrimp. I'd like to keep a fire as well if I could.

This is true for many shrimp but not all. Cleaner shrimp can usually live together ok. Banded coral shrimp will almost always kill each other unless you have a mated pair. Always do your research first.
 
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