can a cleaner shrimp kill hermits?

[fasturtle30]

i have this question for your experience since tonight i was watching my tank and my cleaner shrimp was trying to get a hermit out of its shell and dont know why ! i saw it trying bad i feed regular so i asumme they r not hungry ;) any comments here please

[schoch79]

I don't really think they will kill hermits. Maybe it was trying to clean it? Or steal it's food? And just to be sure, are you sure that it is a cleaner shrimp?

[Maxi]

It was probably molting? I'm not sure.

[fasturtle30]

yes lol im sure is my cleaner have the same tough is trying to shrimp and i see it now and still trying to do it i have the same tough is trying to clean it im watching now guys i guess i can let u know what happen finally :)

[fasturtle30]

hey hold on my emerald crab was getting closer too dont know why, to be honest at night i barely watch what happens in my tank til tonite is kinda crazy tough

[Drock169]

I dont know about Cleaner shrimps killing them, but peppermint will kill them given a chance

[pikachusalad]

Any chance that hermit is dead already?

[Maxi]

Is it moving at all?

[fasturtle30]

yeah i noted this hermit was fighting to another and i guess lost so was dead or dying so the shrimp took advantage and made it dinner itself i saw it actually taking the hermit off the shell and start eating it lil but is that normal?

[pikachusalad]

I've seen a crab eat a dead shrimp, but not the other way around...if I saw it in my tank I guess I'd pull the dead hermit out - in case it had parasites or something...but I have nothing to base that that decision on.

Not sure if it has anything to do with why the hermit was fighting...but maybe it wanted a bigger shell and was trying to steal someone else's. Do you have extra shells for the hermits to move into?

[fasturtle30]

im gonna buy some extra shells tomorrow and i guess i will remove the hermit out as well ;) and yeah was fighting to get a biger shell but the one in it won lol

[RickySan]

i have hermits and cleaner shrimp and i have never seen this. I would ssuggest that it was trying to clean it....however if thats is not the case then see if the extra shells help.

[fasturtle30]

my shrimp is very playful is always trying to clean my fish sometimes they get ****ed off lol i asumme it was trying to clean the but being dead i guess just took lil meat to play with :)