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I bought a tuxedo urchin recently. It seemed to do fine for the first couple of days. It was picking things up and carrying them around like normal. After a couple days I walk in one morning and find him on the sand in the shadow of a rock. The cleaner shrimp was digging on him, but I didn't think much of it. After about half an hour I looked again and saw the same scene. Out of curiosity I picked up the urchin and had a look on him. Sure enough there was a spot about the size of a dime on his side with no spines... right where the shrimp had been digging. By the end of the day he was dead.
I figured it wasn't entirely fair to assume the shrimp did this, so I just shrugged it off. However, a couple days ago I bought a feather duster and a mushroom rock. I was shocked when I saw the cleaner shrimp start eating the feather duster! So, I took the duster out. Then, just now, I saw him trying to eat my decorator crab! What is the deal?? Do I have the cleaner shrimp from hell or are they all like this??
I'm going to take him up to the store as soon as I manage to catch him, but I'm thinking about getting a peppermint shrimp to replace him. Should be expect the same behavoir out of it?
I figured it wasn't entirely fair to assume the shrimp did this, so I just shrugged it off. However, a couple days ago I bought a feather duster and a mushroom rock. I was shocked when I saw the cleaner shrimp start eating the feather duster! So, I took the duster out. Then, just now, I saw him trying to eat my decorator crab! What is the deal?? Do I have the cleaner shrimp from hell or are they all like this??
I'm going to take him up to the store as soon as I manage to catch him, but I'm thinking about getting a peppermint shrimp to replace him. Should be expect the same behavoir out of it?