Savage Royal gramma

[looker]

This is my first post here ( yes a newbie) well I brought a cleaner shrimp
today and put it in the tank and my Royal Gramma went in for the kill, with
in 15 min there was not a lot left. The LFS said that they would be fine
together, is this correct ????

Thanks
Grant

[Rachel]

I have both, and they have nothing to do with each other. But I have read
that Royal Grammas are extremely territorial, choosing a spot and sticking
to it. Maybe the shrimp just landed in the wrong spot?

Rachel

looker <gran...@es.co.nz> wrote in message
news:95863553...@newsch.es.co.nz...

[Catherine]

I have cleaner shrimp and pairs of royal grammas in two different
tanks and have never seen any problems. Are you sure it's a
royal gramma? I've seen more than one fish store sell
pseudochromis as royal grammas. I wouldn't expect a
pseudochromis to attack a cleaner shrimp but a pseudochromis is a
much more aggressive fish than a royal gramma.

In article <95863553...@newsch.es.co.nz>, "looker"

<gran...@es.co.nz> wrote:
> This is my first post here ( yes a newbie) well I brought a
cleaner shrimp
>today and put it in the tank and my Royal Gramma went in for the
kill, with
>in 15 min there was not a lot left. The LFS said that they would
be fine
>together, is this correct ????
>
>Thanks
>Grant
>
>
>
>
>
>

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[disco mama]

EVERY store i see sells them and passes pseudochromis off as royal
grammas..in fact i can't even FIND a real true royal gramma...might have to
mail order one i guess

Catherine wrote in message <03f97785...@usw-ex0107-055.remarq.com>...

[Tim Comrie]

Get into the habit of moving all the rocks around every time you add a new
animal, this breaks up established territories.

Rachel wrote:

> I have both, and they have nothing to do with each other. But I have read
> that Royal Grammas are extremely territorial, choosing a spot and sticking
> to it. Maybe the shrimp just landed in the wrong spot?
>
> Rachel
>
> looker <gran...@es.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:95863553...@newsch.es.co.nz...

> > This is my first post here ( yes a newbie) well I brought a cleaner shrimp
> > today and put it in the tank and my Royal Gramma went in for the kill,
> with
> > in 15 min there was not a lot left. The LFS said that they would be fine
> > together, is this correct ????
> >
> > Thanks
> > Grant
> >
> >
> >
> >

--
Tim C

[Dawn M. Riddle]

The royal gramma is a memeber of the dottyback and basslet group and they
are usually safe with inverts but hey my australian dottyback wiped out 3 of
my cleaners before I took my tank down and caught the dottyback... HTH

[DefLizard]

Just goes to show you what LFS's know! Didley squat, if you asked me! Go
to any decent book that catalogues fish, look up Royal Gramma, not too
hard to miss, and find out that its primary diet is live food, in the
form of crustaceans, amphipods, copepods, etc. Why would it NOT eat a
shrimp? Its also NOT a coral reef fish, but lives in overhangs and
rockwork, each member lives in its own hole, and exists in colonies of
many individuals, although, as many fish do, will not co-exist with
another member of its own kind, in a small aquarium. Its also from the
Atlantic Ocean, and prefers cooler waters. Anytime you 'drop' something
into a tank, fish immediately associate that with food, and will attempt
to eat it! Many a cleaner shrimp winds up as a meal. As Rodney D said:
They gets no respect, either!

Group: rec.aquaria.marine.reefs Date: Thu, May 18, 2000, 7:42pm (PDT+19)
From: gran...@es.co.nz (looker) Savage Royal gramma

  This is my first post here ( yes a newbie) well I brought a
cleaner shrimp today and put it in the tank and my Royal Gramma went in
for the kill, with in 15 min there was not a lot left. The LFS said that
they would be fine together, is this correct ????
Thanks
Grant

http://community.webtv.net/deflizard/doc
regards, John