Boxer Shrimp

[SlowSwim]

Heya All.

JUst bought a boxer shrimp.

My set up is a 15g nano.

I have 2 nems
2 tube worms
Loads of rag worms
one xenia frag thats growing fast enough to see.
2x T5 daylight tubes (one with half atinic)
2x power heads: Maxi-jet 400 + one that runs at half the speed.

7 pounds of LR (another 7 on the way) Fiji premium

Temp at 80F SG at 1.024

2 pounds of crushed coral.

Just wondering what your opinions were on caring for the boxer shrimp?

Also: What can i keep with him? Im looking around for a royal gramma also my g/f is insisting on me getting a clown fish (nemo)

after that im interested in getting more corals. Will my boxer shrimp nibble on them?

Thanx for any info you guys can give me.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

- matt

 

[RoyalGrammaPrincessHannah]

On liveaquaria.com there are 4 different shrimps all with one of their common names being boxer shrimp. Maybe you could look and see if it is one of them.

 

[SlowSwim]

He is a banded coral shrimp, "boxer shrimp" is the common name for them.

 

[RoyalGrammaPrincessHannah]

O really? Ive never heard them called that. Well, i have been researching them as well because i want one but as far as i know its like a flame angel or a coral beauty. You just dont know if they will eat corals or develop a taste for them later on or not. I have seen reef tanks with them in there, but I have read of them destroying corals for the ingested food inside.

 

[Navarre]

This is one of my favorite shrimps but i would never put one in my tank even though mine is 220 gallons ) They grow large and are very capable of eating other fish and shrimps. If you own a boxer in a small tank then forget owning any cleaner shrimps or slow moving fish as they can easily corner them and eat them.

 

[SlowSwim]

Well i was planning on getting a royal gramma, or a clown fish... would ethier of these be easy pickings for my boxer?

 

[RoyalGrammaPrincessHannah]

Royal grammas only get 3 inches long, and ive heard of the shrimp capturing fish this small. Depends on what type of clown. The perculas only get about 3 inches, but the maroons can get up to 6. Theyre cool shrimp but they do limit you.

 

[Luke & Penny]

Hi there, i have a boxer cleaner shrimp , some places call them by different names, i have mine in a 45 gallon tank and its doing fine, it hasnt tried to eat my other fish or corals it just cleans them. i have a false gramma in there with him and hes fine, hes eating all the time and shed's about every 5 weeks

 

[Aquascaper]

I have a Boxer Shrimp that's been in my tank for about 12 months. Taking into account his feelers and legs he's about 10" in diameter, as big as a side plate! He's spends most of the time upside down under a rock overhang catching anything that passes. He tries to catch all the fish and has sucessfully caught a dottyback (same size as a gramma) on a number of occasions but the fish has got free and now stays well clear and he's munched through two cleaner shrimps. He picks at most of the polyps in the tank and is generally a pain in the ass, if I had known that he would get this big and be this much trouble I wouldn't have bought him (I was a newbie once too).

My advice, take him back and get some Sexy shrimp instead.

 

[Luke & Penny]

Mine cleans the corals and other fish as thats there job but shes never eaten my corals
give it a go, i dont regret having mine, when she sees my hand go in the tank to feed shes up on the rocks and she lets me hand feed her

 

[steelhealr]

Thumbs down...not a good choice for your tank. SH

 

[Opcn]

When crustaceas have those ong claws they are almost always for catching and eating smaller crustaceons and fish.