Peppermint Shrimp and Dwarves?

[mtiller]

So I've been attempting to figure this out by researching but keep getting mixed reviews. I do currently have a peppermint shrimp that's been with me for about 2 weeks now, and JUST received my seahorses from ccritters.com (everone's accounted for ). Would it be best for me to rid my tank of the little guy (I place the dwarves on higher priority by all means)?

 

[namxas]

Most folks raise zot fry right in the same tank as the adults, and peps have been known to take down zot fry. Yours may or may not prey on "zotlings", depending on how well fed it is, but that's the reason.

If you want a shrimp that is "fry safe", get a few red lava shrimp (Halocaridina rubra).

 

[mtiller]

Ok thanks for the info! So I should just watch the pep to make sure there aren't any signs of aggression? I've also got 3 blue legged hermits that I'm thinking of taking out of the tank. It seems like it'd be harder to free a captured dwarf from them than a pep x.x. Opinion on that?

 

[jadavis01]

I tried red lava shrimp several times in my dwarf SH tank but they never lasted long. Later I spoke with a friend from Hawaii and she said the water they come from has very low salinity, almost freshwater really.

 

[timinnl]

I tried red lava shrimp several times in my dwarf SH tank but they never lasted long. Later I spoke with a friend from Hawaii and she said the water they come from has very low salinity, almost freshwater really.

Here is more info on the shrimp. They are great with the H. zosterae.

http://www.fukubonsai.com/micro-lobster.html

Tim

 

[timinnl]

So I've been attempting to figure this out by researching but keep getting mixed reviews. I do currently have a peppermint shrimp that's been with me for about 2 weeks now, and JUST received my seahorses from ccritters.com (everone's accounted for ). Would it be best for me to rid my tank of the little guy (I place the dwarves on higher priority by all means)?

The peppermint shrimp makes a great food source for the H. zosterae when they give birth.

I now have a pair on each of my H. zosterae tanks. It is a HOB breeder trap that hold 1.2liter of water driven by an airpump.


Tim

 

[Jeremy Snyder]

I have had zosteraes for about a year now, with many breedings. In the zosterae tank I have:

-Many Zoanthids
-(2) sexy shrimp
-cerinth snails (eats red slime)
-pea crab (abandoned by dead flame scallop, eats red slime)
-tiny hermits (zebra (eats red slime) and blue legged)
-nerite snails
-glowing snails
-yellow gorgonia
-purple whip gorgonia
-green star mat polyps
-dwarf pipefish
-different macro algaes

Never had a problem with anything not mixing well. Everything is placed accordingly. The gorgonias are right by the water flow, which keeps it happy and it diffuses the pressure, which keeps the seahorses happy. When the hermits get big enough that they may do harm, I either put them in my other tank or take them to LFS for exchange for tiny ones to replace them.

 

[mtiller]

I haven't had any issues with the pep and the dwarves since they've been with me last wednesday. The only issue I've had with the inverts in the tank (now only 1 pep shrimp and 3 blue legged hermits) was the predation on the various nassarius snails I purchased. Only 1 out of 8 has survived. I feed the dwarves frozen bbs (I have a bbs culture starting up) just to experiment with it and they've been feeding well since they've been with me.

Jeremy: What size tank do you have and what lighting do you use for your zoanthids?

 

[timinnl]

I have had zosteraes for about a year now, with many breedings. In the zosterae tank I have:

-Many Zoanthids
-(2) sexy shrimp
-cerinth snails (eats red slime)
-pea crab (abandoned by dead flame scallop, eats red slime)
-tiny hermits (zebra (eats red slime) and blue legged)
-nerite snails
-glowing snails
-yellow gorgonia
-purple whip gorgonia
-green star mat polyps
-dwarf pipefish
-different macro algaes

Never had a problem with anything not mixing well. Everything is placed accordingly. The gorgonias are right by the water flow, which keeps it happy and it diffuses the pressure, which keeps the seahorses happy. When the hermits get big enough that they may do harm, I either put them in my other tank or take them to LFS for exchange for tiny ones to replace them.

Do you have a picture of the tank?