Peppermint Shrimp

[justjosh]

I want to share how successful my peppermint shrimp has been at eradicating all of the aiptasia in my frag tank. It would be fair to say that every single square in the egg crate in my frag tank had an anemone on it. I put up with it for a while, but it became an eye sore. I finally went to the lfs and came home with the biggest peppermint shrimp I could find. This guy is at least 3 inches long and very fat. I put him in the tank and within three days, even the anemones that towered over him were no more. Thanks you peppermint shrimp for all your help. :lol2:

 

[xboxdisc]

How big were the aipastias?

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Before and after pics would be great!

 

[Guygettnby]

once the aiptasia are all gone prepair for the pepermint to possibly turn on your corals next. keep your eyes open or remove it from your frag tank when they are all gone. pepermints have a very bad rep for munching on corals.... esp. LPS

 

[justjosh]

How big were the aipastias?

They ranged from a millimeter to over three inches

 

[justjosh]

Before and after pics would be great!

Sorry Sugar Magnolia, I was too embarrassed with the aiptasia to take before pics! lol

 

[justjosh]

once the aiptasia are all gone prepair for the pepermint to possibly turn on your corals next. keep your eyes open or remove it from your frag tank when they are all gone. pepermints have a very bad rep for munching on corals.... esp. LPS

Yeah, found that out the hard way in my display tank. The pep I had in there tore my new acan frag to bits! :/