So i report last week, my carpet anemone is injure for some reason, and at the end, it was dead. So I got a new Ritteri Anemone this week from diver den, both anemones are all supper health at beginning, I put them at same location in my tank, close to Peppermint Shrimp's cave, acttuly top right side of its cave. So when I put it into the place, everything looks like usual. But soon, I find the peppermint shrimp pay special attention to the new anemone, and after for a few hours after the anemone is acclimate into the tank, I did actually the shrimp attack the anemone. Of course, I scare it back into its place soon, since I dont want to remove the anemone because it is already attach to the big rock. So i try to target feed the shrimp with a small piece of food twice a day, the shrimp never bother the anemone again. But the thing is I also have two other anemone in my tank for long time, one sebae and another RBTA, both are fine with Peppermint Shrimp.
BE AWARE, Peppermint Shrimp possible attack anemone
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softieatheart
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Yep. I put a gorgeous tube anemone in my tank last year and my pep immediately ran out and started tearing tentacles off of it. 
velvetelvis
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I think there are too many factors potentially at work here to necessarily blame the shrimp for your magnifica's demise. You've already lost one anemone and then apparently rushed out to get another, without trying to learn what went wrong the first time.
With several different species of anemones in one tank, you may have issues with allelopathy. You may not have the right conditions for a magnifica, which are notoriously delicate shippers and challenging to keep. The anemone might have already been declining before the shrimp began to scavenge it. I'd step back and re-evaluate your system--and do some research and *slow down*!--before drawing any hasty conclusions--or adding any more livestock.
With several different species of anemones in one tank, you may have issues with allelopathy. You may not have the right conditions for a magnifica, which are notoriously delicate shippers and challenging to keep. The anemone might have already been declining before the shrimp began to scavenge it. I'd step back and re-evaluate your system--and do some research and *slow down*!--before drawing any hasty conclusions--or adding any more livestock.
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greg1786
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actually its quite the coincidence that you posted this because I've had a rainbow bta in my tank for two months now and I added two peppermint shrimp to rid my aptasia farm and they got rid of about 20 of them but two are huge so they haven't gotten them yet. however four days ago I noticed the nem had a hole in one of his tentacles which was very odd to me and the next day that same tentacle was laying in the sand right at the foot of the peppermint shrimps cave. I just assumed she injured it on the live rock and shed the injured tentacle, however now I'm second guessing it. the nem is perfectly fine and no worse for the ware and I cant blame the peppermint shrimp because I didn't actually see them commit the "crime" but I will certainly be keeping an eye on those little critters from now on!!
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I have a cleaner shrimp that developed a taste for my GBTA. He would always attach it once the lights went out. I even got a video of it. He would pick a chunk off of him and the eat it....weirdest thing. He never touched my Duncan, Hammer, or any other softies and Zoa's that I had in there. I finally caught him and put him in my DT with my RBTA's. I have never seen him bother the RBTA's, but I do have a pair of clown fish that probably help defend them.....
Rippinfrags
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I have had the same experience with a cleaner shrimp and a fire shrimp. They would both attack my anemones whenever I fed my tank. They knew my anemones would catch them food.
