What food does cleaner shrimp eat?

[richng]

hello guys

just bought a few pieces of cleaner shrimp, just wondering what do they eat? i feeding the fishes with ocean nutriution but shrimps not eating..

thanks

[bugattilambo]

hello guys

just bought a few pieces of cleaner shrimp, just wondering what do they eat? i feeding the fishes with ocean nutriution but shrimps not eating..

thanks

they will let them get used to the environment first my is a pest keep snatching food from my fishes and corals

haha

[fishiee]

ya. they will eat almost anything. greedy fellas.

[sparks1107]

my cleaner shrimp eats leftover pellets, baby plankton and henry food that dropped on the sand bed. I even saw the shrimp grabbing a pellet while it was sinking halfway.

so no worries think they'll just grab any leftover when they get hungry

[iskay]

These fellows go 2 ways only - voracious eater or refuse to eat and starve to death. The former is more common. My skunk cleaner swims upside down to grab food from the water surface! It shamelessly grabs food from the corals too.

[pokmingsheng]

mine eats everything..

damn greedy...

from pellets to mysis to henry's food...

[straydum]

i don't think i can find anything that i put in that they do not eat

[fishiee]

they will even pick dead skin cells off your hands if you put them in...really annoying actually.

[Firestarter]

they will even pick dead skin cells off your hands if you put them in...really annoying actually.

I second that! And I think its the easiest LS to catch because it comes to you.

[kenneth4521]

They are also considered a cleaner shrimp but may not "clean" as often or ... in the same tank but they may do fine with other Peppermint Shrimps. ... They will eat Clams, steal food from Anemones and sometimes pick on them too if the ninjagreens.

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[Firestarter]

Sad news.

Rescaped my tank yesterday and noticed my cleaner shrimp missing.

Thought it was just hiding to molt but if disappeared the whole day.

Just found that it was sucked by my seio wavemaker used as a return pump.