peppermint shrimp eating my RBTA

[commabc]

what can i do to get the shrimp out, or make hime stop eating it?

 

[reefbegood]

Need tons of more info

 

[commabc]

0 amonia
0 nitrite
5-10 nitrate
0 phosphates
400 calcium
9 alk
1350 mag

rbta came from a very healthy thriving tank (5 years). i feel like i feed often enough 2-3 times a day. maybe the shrimp is still hungry though. the rest of my tank is all sps and zoas, this is my only anemone. no lps.

isn't there a fish that eats pep shrimp?

 

[lawdog]

I keep multiple peps in with my BTA in my main tank and never an issue.

Shrimp are scavengers so most likely it is eating something around the BTA or maybe stealing food from the BTA. I highly doubt it is eating your BTA unless it is dying and decaying. The Shrimp will eat decaying things.

Shrimp are a great part of the reef system but if you want him gone... get a hawk fish (flame hawk) and the shrimp will surely be lunch. I yanked my tank apart to get out a hawk fish just so I could keep shrimp again... but that is me.

 

[lkc]

Peps eat aptasia, peps will pick on nems. End of story. Get the shrimp out of the tank.

 

[LiveRound69]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14970498#post14970498 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lkc
Peps eat aptasia, peps will pick on nems. End of story. Get the shrimp out of the tank.

i agree,. i had a pep shrimp eat a 3 headed candy cane coral till i caught him late one night [after gettin tired of watchin one of my fav corals disappear] i had to take out all the rocks and such to get ahold of him. i will never put another one in my tank.

 

[juniormc8704]

are we sure you have peppermints? certain they arent camel shrimp?

 

[Reefbox]

Add a clownfish or 2.

Clarkii or maroon clowns will most definetely protect there host anemone.

 

[commabc]

thanks for the feedback. i'm positive they are peppermants. i already have a pair of black n whites. i actually saw on of the shrimp tear off one of the anemone tips and eat it (this was within 5 mins of the anemone in the tank and planting his foot in a crevice). I have not seen any shrimp messing with it since. it appears to be happy and health...nice bulbs. i will continue to monitor it closely over they next few days, weeks.

 

[dsoz]

I had a pepermint shrimp that I watched eat some of my new "blue xenia" cespitularia. Talk about a case of the least expensive thing eats the most expensive thing.

Needless to say, the shrimp was out.

dsoz

 

[jase.cutler]

i removed my peps after finding them hanging around the foot of my bta, hence they were removed, better safe than sorry, imho.
i had aptasia in the tank which they didn't touch.

jase

 

[LiveRound69]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14971768#post14971768 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by juniormc8704
are we sure you have peppermints? certain they arent camel shrimp?

pep's do exactly the same thing when not kept in check with a periodic supplemental feeding. Any shrimp that doesnt get enough food WILL find a way to feed itself by eating your corals and nem's.

 

[commabc]

yeah that what i've noticed, i thought they were getting plenty of food when i fed my fish. during my feedings i make sure they get some now. there is no way to get them out with out breaking down the tank, i've tried.