How Long Do Cleaner Shrimp Live For

[dodge250]

I have a pair of cleaner shrimp and like the blood shrimp because my lfs say don't mix blood shrimp with cleaners and I can't fish them out so should I wait till they die or not.

 

[ben1987]

abou 3 years i think.

im sure people have mixed them before though???

 

[dodge250]

Thanks you have been big help should I give it a go and try mixing 2 blood cleaners but will the blood cleaners go to the back of the tank

 

[ben1987]

wait for someone else to confirm it. But im pretty sure ive seen people mix them up before

 

[seffieuk]

I have blood cleaner shrimps with peppermints - all still alive and kicking but I did hear/read that regular cleaners and bloods don't get on. If you only have two though the blood will stay in the rockwork and the common will be all over your corals at the front, so they might be ok

The common cleaner would be easy to catch as he will want to clean your hand (as will the blood when he knows you) - just let him climb on board, have a net handy and whoosh - up in to the net

Seffie x

 

[dodge250]

This is weird but the lfs i went to said dont mix cleaners and bloods together but they had them in the same tank there 