BUSTED my peppertmint shrimp eating my acan!
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Yea I saw it poking, pulling, and digging, and was wondering what the heck is it doing, then I noticed part of the acan was missing were it was poking, pulling, and digging, I was ready to KILL! but its still alive. MAN I can never get it right!!!!!!! got rid of aiptaisa at the cost of an acan NOT GOOD!!!!!
I got rid of mine after I saw it picking at my sand sifting star. Never saw it picking at corals though. I can also say I have had nomore Aptasia since then either. So it did a fine job and made a good trade item.
No need for a shrimp trap. After lights are out and fish are asleep. Drop some food in a decent size net and put it in the tank. He'll make a bee line for it. Bingo! You have it.
Atleast that's what I did. 1 minute deal.
No need for a shrimp trap. After lights are out and fish are asleep. Drop some food in a decent size net and put it in the tank. He'll make a bee line for it. Bingo! You have it.
Atleast that's what I did. 1 minute deal.
I had a peppermint shrimp that got a taste for my elegance corals, I caught them by putting a bottled water container (I think it was the 1L bottle) on the bottom of the tank with frozen food in it and left it over night. The shrimp went in to the bottle and then could not get back out. Caught both peppermint's that night!!:top:
It's most likely a Camel shrimp, they look a lot like a Peppermint but have a taste for LPS. I got one thinking it was a Pepp and had to catch it with an arrowhead bottle with some Mysis in it, he went in within a minute or two.
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yeah ive never had them "eat" corals ......but have had both cleaners and peppermints ....after i spot fed all of my lps with mysis, brains acans duncans dendros favias etc......they would come up and dig into themouth of whatever lps they found first and rip out the mysis and tear the oral disc to shreads. and a couple days ago i seen this emerald i added ....just walk up to my rainbow acan and start ripping it apart for no reason at all...like he was in a bad mood hahah geez
yeah ive never had them "eat" corals ......but have had both cleaners and peppermints ....after i spot fed all of my lps with mysis, brains acans duncans dendros favias etc......they would come up and dig into themouth of whatever lps they found first and rip out the mysis and tear the oral disc to shreads. and a couple days ago i seen this emerald i added ....just walk up to my rainbow acan and start ripping it apart for no reason at all...like he was in a bad mood hahah geez
Busted again, I was ready for sleep, and took a look at my reef before bed time, and lo and behold a peppermint shrimp was at the top where I put all my acans on a frag rack eating away at yet another acan, I was furious smoke was coming out of my nose, so I got a large net put it under the frag rack, and with another small net I pushed it in the big net, and BINGO caught you sucker, then I put him in my fresh water tank and slowly watched him :hahaha
IE!!!!! that's 4 down, and "1" to go, I'll let you know when I catch that last one!:marchmellow:
IE!!!!! that's 4 down, and "1" to go, I'll let you know when I catch that last one!:marchmellow:
