Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday?

fishnu · 05-07-2008, 05:58 PM

I inherited a free Coral Banded Shrimp from a friend of my sister. Last night I saw him take a nip at my Euphyllia. Since then I have read that they can be aggressive to coral (nipping and sipping) and fish if not feeling well fed / loved.

Should I send this guy to visit Santa?

Stacef · 05-07-2008, 06:03 PM

No!! At least give him to your lfs or something! Mine doesn't bother my fish at all, maybe give him a chance to feel comfortable. They are territorial (at least mine is) I have only seen mine nip a couple times...and it was when he was new. Please don't freeze him or what not. If anything, mail him to me, I am only 2.5 hours from you!

rlcline76 · 05-07-2008, 06:23 PM

I don't know if I would want a coral eater, Stace. Fish eaters are probably worse for the resale at the LFS.

CMG · 05-07-2008, 06:24 PM

Mine has nipped at my bubble coral one time that I saw it anyways. He is pretty cool and I like him a lot. He never bothers my fish. Maybe just give him some time. Mine loves to come out and snatch mysis out of the water column when I am feeding. its sooo neat to watch them eat as they pass the food along all of their little "hands"

rlcline76 · 05-07-2008, 06:36 PM

I had one eat $80 worth of fish. I am not big on them...and they are tough to get out of the reef if they don't work out. They might move slow, but not when they see a net! lol
Fishnu, are you sure the CBS wasn't just picking at something in the coral?

fishnu · 05-07-2008, 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rlcline76

Fishnu, are you sure the PIMP THE SHRIMP wasn't just picking at something in the coral?

No, you are right. I will give him a reprieve until I see damage.

rlcline76 · 05-07-2008, 06:41 PM

And if it doesn't work out...I'll send you my business card. I don't mind being a killer for hire, unless someone wants to jump my case...and then I'll say that I was just kidding...sort of.

Stacef · 05-07-2008, 07:41 PM

Becky, I will jump your case! You talk about not cycling with fish...but yet..willing to freeze a CBS! I LOVE mine he is so neat, and very nice.

Anyways, Becky I will drive and pick him up before he is put to his misery.
And--how in the WORLD are you at 1600 posts already hahaha!

fishnu · 05-07-2008, 07:56 PM

OK.

Give him a reprieve
Offer him for free on Craigslist
Coral Banded Elf

In that order

Dre · 05-07-2008, 08:00 PM

I'll take him

Can you have two in a tank? (45gal)

fishnu · 05-07-2008, 08:04 PM

Male and female, yes.

Dre · 05-07-2008, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishnu

Male and female, yes.

How can you tell male or female?

Varga · 05-07-2008, 08:25 PM

whats a winter Holiday ?

CMG · 05-07-2008, 08:39 PM

OMG! I was at the LFS about a month ago and saw the biggest CBS EVER!!!. It was in the tank closest to the ground and at first I didnt see it. I was just cruisin' the lanes lookin' at everything and then I see this red and white under a rock in the bottom tank. So I sit down on my highknee (hehe) and look up under some of the LR and whamo!!!! I almost peed my pants. There was this big ol' honker hangin upside down like a big ol' boxer waiting for someone to roll by. This thing must have been the size of a soft ball or maybe even bigger. It would have taken up all the room in a 10g tank! haha, I can see that being a problem. But mine is small, maybe 3"...

Stacef · 05-07-2008, 08:40 PM

I believe a winter holiday is freezing... EEK! I don't know why anyone else isn't upset about this. The CBS is just as precious as a fish.

Option #3 is to contact me and have me come and pic him up!

05-07-2008, 05:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
fishnu Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 998 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? I inherited a free Coral Banded Shrimp from a friend of my sister. Last night I saw him take a nip at my Euphyllia. Since then I have read that they can be aggressive to coral (nipping and sipping) and fish if not feeling well fed / loved. Should I send this guy to visit Santa? __________________ *I'd rather be good slow than bad fast.* Fishnu, Lord of Fishes Mantis Shrimp Club My Tank Thread The Wisdom of Fishnu - Mistakes on the path. 75 Gal Refurbished and Refinished Dutch Aquariums System Tank drilled with 2 1.5" bulkheads and 30 Gal Sump / Refugium Combo; 90 Lbs Fiji LR; ASM G2; OR6500 Pump; 2 Koralia Nanos; 2 150W HQI 2 96W Actinics; Gamma 25w UV; Kent Maxxima Hi S 60GPD RO/DI. Amphiprion percula (OMEN); Sphaeramia nematoptera (CODY); stenopus hispidus (PIMP THE SHRIMP); Selected hermits and snails. Euphyllia divisa, Euphyllia glabrescens, Pink Acanthastrea (Lord?), Zoas, selected mushrooms (Rhodactis, Actinodiscus, Sarcophyton ...). Looking for mermaid.

05-07-2008, 06:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
Stacef Reef Lobster Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dubuque Posts: 1,303 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? No!! At least give him to your lfs or something! Mine doesn't bother my fish at all, maybe give him a chance to feel comfortable. They are territorial (at least mine is) I have only seen mine nip a couple times...and it was when he was new. Please don't freeze him or what not. If anything, mail him to me, I am only 2.5 hours from you! __________________ Stace My 20g Build Live Sand or Crused Coral, vote here!

05-07-2008, 06:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
rlcline76 Manta Ray Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Fort Bliss, TX Posts: 3,212 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? I don't know if I would want a coral eater, Stace. Fish eaters are probably worse for the resale at the LFS. __________________ ~Becky~ I think everything ALWAYS comes back to underwear sooner or later. Whether or not that's a good thing is up to conjecture. BarbMazz Any weather is thong weather. BEELZEBOB honesty and a skidmark fetish will get you far Sasquatch I don't want the world, I just want your half. TMBG

05-07-2008, 06:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
CMG Torch coral Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sonoma County, CA Posts: 586 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? Mine has nipped at my bubble coral one time that I saw it anyways. He is pretty cool and I like him a lot. He never bothers my fish. Maybe just give him some time. Mine loves to come out and snatch mysis out of the water column when I am feeding. its sooo neat to watch them eat as they pass the food along all of their little "hands" __________________ My Chronical: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...wlr-setup.html 40g, Purple Dartfish (squirley), Banggai Cardinal (Spot), 3 sand sifting snails, 3 nerite snails and a golden banded shrimp (Batman).

05-07-2008, 06:36 PM	#5 (permalink)
rlcline76 Manta Ray Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Fort Bliss, TX Posts: 3,212 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? I had one eat $80 worth of fish. I am not big on them...and they are tough to get out of the reef if they don't work out. They might move slow, but not when they see a net! lol Fishnu, are you sure the CBS wasn't just picking at something in the coral? __________________ ~Becky~ I think everything ALWAYS comes back to underwear sooner or later. Whether or not that's a good thing is up to conjecture. BarbMazz Any weather is thong weather. BEELZEBOB honesty and a skidmark fetish will get you far Sasquatch I don't want the world, I just want your half. TMBG

05-07-2008, 06:41 PM	#7 (permalink)
rlcline76 Manta Ray Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Fort Bliss, TX Posts: 3,212 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? And if it doesn't work out...I'll send you my business card. I don't mind being a killer for hire, unless someone wants to jump my case...and then I'll say that I was just kidding...sort of. __________________ ~Becky~ I think everything ALWAYS comes back to underwear sooner or later. Whether or not that's a good thing is up to conjecture. BarbMazz Any weather is thong weather. BEELZEBOB honesty and a skidmark fetish will get you far Sasquatch I don't want the world, I just want your half. TMBG

05-07-2008, 07:41 PM	#8 (permalink)
Stacef Reef Lobster Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dubuque Posts: 1,303 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? Becky, I will jump your case! You talk about not cycling with fish...but yet..willing to freeze a CBS! I LOVE mine he is so neat, and very nice. Anyways, Becky I will drive and pick him up before he is put to his misery. And--how in the WORLD are you at 1600 posts already hahaha! __________________ Stace My 20g Build Live Sand or Crused Coral, vote here!

05-07-2008, 07:56 PM	#9 (permalink)
fishnu Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 998 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? OK. Give him a reprieve Offer him for free on Craigslist Coral Banded Elf In that order __________________ *I'd rather be good slow than bad fast.* Fishnu, Lord of Fishes Mantis Shrimp Club My Tank Thread The Wisdom of Fishnu - Mistakes on the path. 75 Gal Refurbished and Refinished Dutch Aquariums System Tank drilled with 2 1.5" bulkheads and 30 Gal Sump / Refugium Combo; 90 Lbs Fiji LR; ASM G2; OR6500 Pump; 2 Koralia Nanos; 2 150W HQI 2 96W Actinics; Gamma 25w UV; Kent Maxxima Hi S 60GPD RO/DI. Amphiprion percula (OMEN); Sphaeramia nematoptera (CODY); stenopus hispidus (PIMP THE SHRIMP); Selected hermits and snails. Euphyllia divisa, Euphyllia glabrescens, Pink Acanthastrea (Lord?), Zoas, selected mushrooms (Rhodactis, Actinodiscus, Sarcophyton ...). Looking for mermaid.

05-07-2008, 08:00 PM	#10 (permalink)
Dre Bryozoan Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Chi-Town Posts: 53 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? I'll take him Can you have two in a tank? (45gal) __________________ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Dre

05-07-2008, 08:04 PM	#11 (permalink)
fishnu Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 998 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? Male and female, yes. __________________ *I'd rather be good slow than bad fast.* Fishnu, Lord of Fishes Mantis Shrimp Club My Tank Thread The Wisdom of Fishnu - Mistakes on the path. 75 Gal Refurbished and Refinished Dutch Aquariums System Tank drilled with 2 1.5" bulkheads and 30 Gal Sump / Refugium Combo; 90 Lbs Fiji LR; ASM G2; OR6500 Pump; 2 Koralia Nanos; 2 150W HQI 2 96W Actinics; Gamma 25w UV; Kent Maxxima Hi S 60GPD RO/DI. Amphiprion percula (OMEN); Sphaeramia nematoptera (CODY); stenopus hispidus (PIMP THE SHRIMP); Selected hermits and snails. Euphyllia divisa, Euphyllia glabrescens, Pink Acanthastrea (Lord?), Zoas, selected mushrooms (Rhodactis, Actinodiscus, Sarcophyton ...). Looking for mermaid.

05-07-2008, 08:25 PM	#13 (permalink)
Varga Acropora Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 1,710 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? whats a winter Holiday ?

05-07-2008, 08:39 PM	#14 (permalink)
CMG Torch coral Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sonoma County, CA Posts: 586 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? OMG! I was at the LFS about a month ago and saw the biggest CBS EVER!!!. It was in the tank closest to the ground and at first I didnt see it. I was just cruisin' the lanes lookin' at everything and then I see this red and white under a rock in the bottom tank. So I sit down on my highknee (hehe) and look up under some of the LR and whamo!!!! I almost peed my pants. There was this big ol' honker hangin upside down like a big ol' boxer waiting for someone to roll by. This thing must have been the size of a soft ball or maybe even bigger. It would have taken up all the room in a 10g tank! haha, I can see that being a problem. But mine is small, maybe 3"... __________________ My Chronical: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...wlr-setup.html 40g, Purple Dartfish (squirley), Banggai Cardinal (Spot), 3 sand sifting snails, 3 nerite snails and a golden banded shrimp (Batman).

05-07-2008, 08:40 PM	#15 (permalink)
Stacef Reef Lobster Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dubuque Posts: 1,303 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Should I send my Coral Banded Shrimp on a Winter Holiday? I believe a winter holiday is freezing... EEK! I don't know why anyone else isn't upset about this. The CBS is just as precious as a fish. Option #3 is to contact me and have me come and pic him up! __________________ Stace My 20g Build Live Sand or Crused Coral, vote here!

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