Cleaner Shrimp Annoying my rBTA

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Quick Question: Can a Cleaner Shrimp hurt/stress/annoy a rose BTA right out of its spot and make it move around?

Description: I have two happy as can be anemones, then I got a cleaner shrimp. The shrimp at first liked this one cave up by my pink-tip anemone and it would run his "antlers" over the anemone's tenticles...this anemone did not seem to care to much. The Shrimp has now moved to the other side of the tank by a different cave and started doing that to my other anemone (rBTA). Now the anemone is reaching as far away as possible, to get away from the shrimp. The shrimp now even has climed down to the rock the BTA has its foot in, to get a closer feel.

I just wonder if he is causing any harm/stress to my BTA. Has anyone had any experience with this before??

So discouraging, I would hate to get rid of the shrimp, but I dont want my BTA to die. I do not know how to prevent it :/ Dont understand why many others have this problem.

 

[danmhippo]

As far as hurting anemone, I don't think that is a concern, but cleaners would regularly steal food from anemone though. I have not witnessed anemone harrassed by shrimps, but it is certainly possible.

 

[Anonymous]

I watched my cleaner/and pepermint shrimp take food from my BTA on more than one occasion. The Peps got caught one by one and the BTA won. THe cleaner just stopped one day.

 

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Ya He has seemed to leave the BTA alone most of today so that is good..the bta needs a breask. He is now concentrating on trying to clean the Yellow Tang of whom wants nothing to do w. the cleaner shrimp its funny to watch.

 

[ElMonoCalvo]

I recently added a BTA and when I first put it in, it retracted whenever the cleaner shrimp tentacle'd it. Since then my Maroon clown moved in so now whenever the cleaner's tentacles even come close, the clown grabs hold and tries to pull the him in :twisted: .

 

[Anonymous]

Nature at work.