Peppermint Shrimp

[solitude127]

How do you think a peppermint shrimp knows the difference between aptaisia and a zoa/paly? I just added a peppermint shrimp to my nano and I was watching him pull on some zoas. Anybody ever witness a peppermint each a zoa/paly?

 

[bboyvital]

yes i have seen this happen in my tank..**** it! yet i still have them..you win some you lose some.

 

[lowbudget]

you sure you didnt get a ahhhh one of those other shrimp that looks like a peppermint that isnt? camel shrimp


GO KINGS

 

[solitude127]

uhhhhhhh. uhhhhhhh. i'll have to compare.

 

[GoReef165]

Now you need to rent a trigger if you want him gone

 

[toomuch420]

Get a wrasse
Bam done


*rAzOr*

 

[Mr. Plant]

Get a wrasse
Bam done


*rAzOr*

+1 !!!

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Peppermint shrimp are carnivores and will eat polyps and soft coral if they are starved or accustom to it lol

 

[SKremk]

I had some peppermint shrimp that ate all my yellow polyps, but they never really touched zoas or other palys. They would also steal mysis or other food that I'd fed to LPS.

 

[happaman]

I had some peppermint shrimp that ate all my yellow polyps, but they never really touched zoas or other palys. They would also steal mysis or other food that I'd fed to LPS.

same here. All my yellow polyps disappeared after they finished the aptaisia.
But to me yellow polyps were like a pest so I didn't care. Never had them touch zoa's.

 

[Six2seven]

I added 3 peppermints a few weeks ago and never saw them again. next on the list... A Copperband.

 

[solitude127]

The shrimp made short work of the aptaisia I had in my tank. Pray for my zoas and palys.

 

[h0ndap0w3r]

I had 2.of.them eat a clam...

 

[lowbudget]

pictures would help i know you got that bomb gs3

 

[BeanMachine]

The shrimp made short work of the aptaisia I had in my tank. Pray for my zoas and palys.

Catch Em ill buy them

 

[solitude127]

Catch Em ill buy them

Let me borrow your trap. If I can catch him, he's yours.

 

[BeanMachine]

Let me borrow your trap. If I can catch him, he's yours.

K going to CFM, I'll bring it then. Figure he'll have a day or two to eat aiptasias before the wrasse crew eats him for dinner. Hope you don't mind hehe

 

[solitude127]

Just make sure you put him in way after the lights are turned off.

 

[BeanMachine]

Just make sure you put him in way after the lights are turned off.

I know I kill coral but do I look like a wrasse newb? ha

 

[wickedfish]

How do you think a peppermint shrimp knows the difference between aptaisia and a zoa/paly? I just added a peppermint shrimp to my nano and I was watching him pull on some zoas. Anybody ever witness a peppermint each a zoa/paly?

No but I added 6 once and my purple tang ate 2 in less than 3 minutes. It was worth the entertainment! Then the other fish ate the other 4, the end.