Help with peppermint shrimp

[booie]

HELP! my peppermint shrimp is eating my Tongan Nassarius Snails! anyone have an explanation?!?! he will flip then over and eat then bit by bit!:eek1:

 

[Betta132]

Are the snails healthy?
Peppermints, like most inverts, are opportunistic feeders. They'll eat anything they can.

 

[booie]

yes the snail are healthy he ate 2

 

[cloak]

Keeping the peppermint shrimp well fed might help with the aggression.

FWIW it seems like everytime I add a peppermint shrimp to my tank they start eating some of the smaller Stomatella snails or start picking at things I don't want them to. (various LPS corals) My LFS keeps them kind of in a sump area of this tanks & I know they're not being fed well. After about a week in my tank though they seem to settle down and act accordingly.

 

[booie]

thx for the help!

 

[booie]

ok after the snails a week later..... HE ATE MY YELLOW WATCHMAN GOBY!!! i just dont understand why! he is feed well every feeding?

 

[cloak]

I kind of doubt that, but hey, anything is possible I guess. A healthy fish should have absolutely no problems whatsoever getting away from a peppermint shrimp. Also, the claws on these things are not really big enough to do any serious damage. You might want to look elsewhere IMO. GL.

 

[Betta132]

A peppermint shrimp quite simply cannot kill a watchman goby. If the goby was already dead, he would gladly eat it, but they aren't physically capable of killing fish larger than fry.
Could you post a pic of your shrimp? I'm starting to think you may have something that isn't a peppermint.

 

[gogo7]

i'm waiing for a pic of a pretty mantis myself...

sorry to change subject, but what's the yellow road sign?