Cover your corals with tupperware caps when feeding. Keeps various shrimp out.
Aiptasia X or Peppermint shrimp?
- Thread starter dnguyen1
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Cover your corals with tupperware caps when feeding. Keeps various shrimp out.
frankpayne32
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Despite popular "knowledge" quite a few individual peppermint shrimp are coralivores.
cloak
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That's news to me. I'm probably going to take mine back when the job is done, but I'll keep an eye on it. I guess if they can rip an aptasia to threads then certain corals wouldn't be that much different. TY.
djkms
Fish Freak
Are we sure this statement is meant for true peppermint shrimps? I thought that sometimes another type of shrimp is commonly and mistakenly sold as peppermints when in fact it is a coral eater... from another region. Camel shrimp perhaps? Cant remember the type of shrimp or where its from though.
lordofthereef
One reef to rule them all
I had fantastic luck with peppermints. I see an aiptasia every now and again but I really don't mind. I know that the peps will make quick work of them in short time. I was up to maybe two dozen. Now I see maybe one every two weeks for a day or so. Usually gone by the times lights are back on the next morning.
lordofthereef
One reef to rule them all
Can and do are two different things. I am sure many fish could quite severely damage corals too if they "wanted" to.
cloak
New member
Are you worried about a fish? What do you have in your tank? Something is on your mind...
SoLiD
-=Snake=-
Yes, I have seen peppermint shrimp eat certain corals. Mostly just Acans and a couple other LPS but never SPS, Zoas, or Softies. They, just like most shrimp, are opportunistic feeders. If you starve them they will go hunting at night for what ever they can find. In the Texas summer, we collect them in the hundreds at the Port Aransas Jetties during the night time. This was only my second time out there. Yes... That's 442 Peppermint Shrimp!!!
Austinchap
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Just had this problem! I bought to peppermint shrimp and they were all gone in two days. The largest one I had was about a 1/4" diameter.
I would use Kalk mix on the larger ones and get a few peppermint shrimp for the rest. I had some growing deep in caves and crack where u cant really reach. That's the problem with just using kalk on the ones u can see. I also had some small ones that you would never see unless u sat there and stared at the rocks like I did haha.
I would use Kalk mix on the larger ones and get a few peppermint shrimp for the rest. I had some growing deep in caves and crack where u cant really reach. That's the problem with just using kalk on the ones u can see. I also had some small ones that you would never see unless u sat there and stared at the rocks like I did haha.
cloak
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david pinder
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Aptaisia was becoming a real problem in both my sytems 100 plus in each. Tried all the remedies people are talking about but they kept coming back. with 700 gal reefs it was becoming a major pain. One of my local shops said get some molted file fish wich I did Got 2 for each tank 3 months ago slow at first but now cant find a single aptaisia in my system
SoLiD
-=Snake=-
I wish I could... I imagine shipping and packing would cost about $60 alone. I'd hook everybody up if it was cheap.
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