Peppermint shrimp

[Lmax8rn]

Has anyone had an issue with peppermint shrimp DECIMATING your corals? I bought some for my 110 reef tank to eat a few aptasia I had that popped up, before they got out of control. Within a few days my small feather dusters, a few zoos, and a beautiful piece of pipe organ coral GONE! I'm sick over it! I tried to catch them in a shrimp trap, with all different snacks, for 4nights in a row, didn't catch a single one. Today I am resorting to a hawkfish in the hopes he will eat them. Yes, I'm sure they are peppermint shrimp. Any ideas on getting the home wreckers out? Even if it is not a completely safe reef fish, I am willing to try. I have perfected a method for easily catching unwanted fish out of my tank, so removing one after the shrimp are gone is a definite option if they are trouble makers. HELP!!!!

 

[Betta132]

Take a look at the eyes. Green eyes? Camel shrimp.
If not, then it's just rogue peppermint shrimp. Happens.
Try a bottle trap, works fairly well for most shrimp. Or is that what you already tried?
What's your method for fish? Try the same thing with them, perhaps?

 

[Calappidae]

You would have to have very sick coral or starving shrimp for a killing spree like that to happen.

 

[Lmax8rn]

They are definitely pmint shrimp. I actually saw them eating what I mentioned above. My beautiful pipe organ got hit the hardest. I purchases two large hawkfish yesterday, I will see if they can rid me of them.

I tried the pop-bottle trap for the shrimp to no avail, and they won't go for the fish catching method outlined below.

My method for catching ANY unwanted fish is this; I thaw my brine, dump it in a net and rinse, add MVI, or whatever you like to soak your food in, then pour it into a small fish net. I feed with the net in the tank, slowly. The fish swim right in for the food, every time. When I want to catch one, I just use a bigger net, the fish don't know the difference in the size of the Nets.