AAAAA Help!!!!

So today I brought a bubble tip home. It set up and was looking good.checked on him a little later and three peppermints were tearing to shreddes.any suggestions is he doomed,don't think I can catch them. Maybe trap them and put them in the sump?
 
If his tissue is shredded, he's pretty well toast. You will know he is dead when you smell the awfulest stench you have ever smelled. Put him in a bucket and leave him alone.

The peps can serve in the sump if you plan to get another.

Peps will eat aiptasia and, I believe, majanos, and they sometimes will sample a polyp, then decide to leave it alone---never had them do real damage even in an sps reef.

Unfortunately nems are on their menu. Never heard of them going after one this large, but there must either have been an injury to the nem that got him going downhill and prompted them to act as undertakers (they smell things in the water) or they were just real hungry for nems.

In any case, if his tissue is too wounded to hold pressure, he's pretty well done for.
 
Do you have any ideas on trapping the peppermints? The anemone has opened up and looks like it could recover. I been swatting at the shrimp,so there leaving it alone for now. But there lurking nearby
 
Got a piece of raw shrimp or fish? PUt it in a wine carafe, and wait. Even hold it in your hand: they're nervy enough to come after it so you can close your hand on it.
 
+1 that if the shrimp went after it there is/was probably something wrong.
Nems are rough...
"Shredded" is probably always bad
I'm going to bet removing the nem to a hospital tank is better/easier than catching the shrimp...
 
K guys update. The nem has opened and seems ok it does have wounds.I'm worried about pealing it off the rock. This will be last resort .I'm going to continue hunting the peppermints if that's what they are. The other tank inhabitants are vary curious except the clown lol. She prefers the torch as of yet. I got tne nem for her so she would leave the corals alone. I have a couple of domino's that are keeping the peppermints at bay. They seem to be protecting, curious, they've always ignored them before. Here's a couple of pics of the nem and a few new friends, and one of the assailant's even the blenny wants to see what's going on
 
Forgot the pics
 

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