let's make a list of NOT REEF SAFE animals

[bocochoco]

Share your what livestock you will never again place in your reef and why.

Mine-Peppermint Shrimp
Added to eat a couple aiptasia. It worked but after that he got a taste for my $200 clams. Somehow he ate them both in 2 days.
$10 shrimp destroyed $200 worth of clam...

 

[om84]

Are you sure they weren't camelback shrimp? Although I have heard rarely peppermints doing some shady things. And also are you sure the clams didn't die first due to some parameter issue?

 

[bocochoco]

Are you sure they weren't camelback shrimp? Although I have heard rarely peppermints doing some shady things. And also are you sure the clams didn't die first due to some parameter issue?

Yeah this was a particularly nasty peppermint, definitely jot a camel, and I caught him after finding the first clam shell empty ripping the flesh from the second off every time it opened. When it closed it ate at the foot. The pieces he ripped off died and got eaten by hermits and he gorged on the rest. He literally murdered it for the sake of it.
I Couldn't save the second clam in time to trap the shrimp. It was ripped from the shell overnight and I had a big fat peppermint sitting in a pop-bottle trap looking smug and satisfied.

 

[Sullyman]

Hippopotamus, never again........................

 

[jfuka78]

Hippopotamus, never again........................

Why

 

[scolley]

Nothing to contribute but a deep suspicion of sexy shrimp. No conclusive proof however...

GREAT thread idea though :thumbsup:

 

[kn240]

Melanurus wrasse, ate 2 peppermint, a fire shrimp, and all my cuc.

 

[altolamprologus]

Nothing to contribute but a deep suspicion of sexy shrimp. No conclusive proof however...

GREAT thread idea though :thumbsup:

Sexies aren't reef safe! I watched as one of mine ripped flesh off a monti digi. They do seem to refrain from coral eating when hosting an anemone and kept well fed, but I'll never get the again.

 

[bocochoco]

Melanurus wrasse, ate 2 peppermint, a fire shrimp, and all my cuc.

Wish I had my melanarus when I had the murderous peppermint shrimp.
Mine leaves my cuc alone so far but she's well fed with pods and rods