Cleaner Shrimp killed

[bearsfan420]

my kids said they saw my black/white clown and purple dottyback attack and kill my large cleaner shrimp today, it has been in the tank like 6 months with them. Has anyone else had this happen? I noticed couple months ago that my other lg cleaner shrimp disappeared but wasn't sure why but I think now I know what happened.

[Steve]

Cleaner shrimp are not real long lived some time. If it was dying and showing signs of weakness I would say yes. Some dottybacks can be kinda aggressive anyway. Never had any trouble out of clowns and I have kept about 5 different kinds.