• Compatibility of cleaner shrimp and brittle stars?

  • Joseph2576

Compatibility of the cleaner shrimp and the brittle star? I had a brief experience keeping a boxer shrimp, which was found barely alive a couple of days later, entangled in the arms of the brittle star. After that, the shrimp did not survive. I think the shrimp brought this upon itself. Will a similar situation occur with the cleaner shrimp?

Elizabeth6302

No. Something just happened to the boxer - he couldn't make weight, he couldn't handle the travel, he was injured somewhere, etc.

Alyssa1438

If you keep a predatory olive brittle star (Ophiarachna incrassata), you should be prepared to lose small fish or invertebrates at some point, although it is said that when well-fed, it is somewhat safe.