My Cleaner Shrimp Is Scaring My Clownfish&Damsel !

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KaceFace

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haha.
my fish get so close to my cleaner shrimp and he almost starts cleaning them, and then bam! they get scared and swim away.
will they ever trust my shrimp ? ? ?
:n00b:
 
Hard to say...my cleaner shrimp rides my yellow tang the length of my 72 gallon tank. My kole tang sits still for the cleaner too......my clown fish on the other hand are very anti-social to everything, including the shrimp!

Give them time and who knows.... :)
 
haha yeah, thats cool.
my cleaner shrimp was cleaning my damsel today for like 2 seconds.
i think they'll get used to him.
 
More than likely they will grow used to it. Mine likes to go for a ride on my hands when I'm doing something in the tank which was creepy the first time around.
 
Mine cleans any cuts I may have and did not know about. As for the fish, I think if they have something they want off they will find him. My clowns stay away for the most part. Every now and then they seem to be "visiting" the doctor (cleaner shrimp).
 
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