cleaner shrimps and RBTA

[terryansimon]

I tried to feed my RBTA just now, after realising that I've not fed it in a while.

the dumb cleaner shrimp will just happily go and pluck out the prawn meat, whilst the anemone is trying to ingest it.

1) will this cause any harm to the anemone? the plucking out action that is

2) doesn't the anemone sting the living crap out of the prawn?

3) any suggestions to prevent this from happening? feeding the shrimps prior to that wouldn't work as they are the greediest bunch of shrimps ever.

[hamannbmw]

i stand by a stick to wack those trying to snatch food from my corals

[terryansimon]

wah. you stand and "fly swat" for how long?

[DragonGoby]

that's the very reason why I got rid of all my scarlet cleaner shrimps, and went for glass shrimp instead. The same function, but much less irritating. Used to do what hamannbmw did ... stood with a stick when I fed my anemones (those things can even climb into tube anemones to get at food!) and lobos.

Or just get a carpet anemone and teach them a lesson ... once and for all.

[lightningstrike]

i stand by a stick to wack those trying to snatch food from my corals

i used to do that 2 when i m feeding my ric floridas wif pcs of market prawns.

[terryansimon]

wah jialat.

and now they're walking all over my newly bought purple staghorn. gee.

I'm really interested in getting rid of them now.

[hamannbmw]

wah jialat.

and now they're walking all over my newly bought purple staghorn. gee.

I'm really interested in getting rid of them now.

ya.. this guys r walking zombies

[AhLoon]

wah! if feeding yr shrimps first also cannot then its really tricky liao...