| Scarlet Shrimp ninja decoy
I recently introduced a Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp into my tank for no particular reason other than the fact that I like the way they look in the tank. Turns out he's a master ninja. The lights go out and he stalks my Yellow Tang for 9 straight hours until the lights come on for breakfast. He'll pretend to be busy digging at a rock while the unsuspecting baby Yellow Tang swims past his rock, then BAM, he leaps out like a pouncing Tiger and latches onto my Tang (whom immediately has a seizure) and hangs upside down on him and goes to work. The most recent Ninja move my shrimp pulled was the ninja decoy. He produced a clone-silhouette version of himself to distract my other fish while he plots his attack
Either that, or he just shed a layer of skin, antennae and all. Its pretty creepy.
But in all seriousness, should I remove this from the tank? (the outer layer of his former self) Is he going to continue doing this every two weeks? He's a cleaner shrimp, I commissioned him to clean up the tank! He's not supposed to be leaving his skin laying all over the place! |