Peppermint Shrimps in Reefs?

[yoboyjdizz]

Just would like to know other people's experiences with them in their reef tanks....

 

[spanglish]

I have one in my display and one in my fuge. I had and
aiptasia problem and they seem to have helped.
I had no negative experience.

 

[stlouisguy]

They are great in my tank. Clean the fish and cause no problems

 

[Domboski]

they are fine in my system. Although shrooms have been vanishing.... I think that is the camel shrimp.

 

[Tony25]

I have 4 in my 55 and they dont bother a thing.

 

[Rhodesholar]

No complaints here.

 

[coraladdict]

I had two ,mated and the female would release the eggs which is good for the corals ect
However if you have a DSB they tend to eat the pods which is noit a good thing.

 

[evil_monkey]

I have one in my 13gl, no more aiptasia. I do think it is nibling on my zoa's though, a larger colony in now looking slim.

I really hope it is him and not a nudi problem. no new zoa's or corals in a while, so I'm not sure. maybe should put him in the fuge and keep an eye on the colony.

 

[corals b 4 bills]

Any shrimp (camels are the worst for this) will graze or attack any coral that seems to be stressed or ailing, I introduced a prized large neon green frog spawn into my tank and by the morning there was only one third of it left, to this day one year later I look at my frog spawn and cry, I tore down my reef to capture three camel shrimp that kept eating my clown fishes eggs, if you could do without shrimp than you probably be better off.

 

[Waxxiemann]

I added 3 at once and one disappeared right away (I used to have a longnose hawk) but I have had the other 2 for quite some time.

Of late, my pod population does seem to be a little on the light side but I have also noticed my copperband eating pods so this may be the cause.

Mine never ate aptasia though and that's what I hired them for. They are very interesting none the less.

 

[frederickk]

I have three in the 180g that I just add last weekend and hope for the best that they will work on my aptaisia.

 

[dc]

Mine ate the aiptasia and a lot of bristleworms too.

 

[DJChesnutRabbit]

I have 1 in my 54g, 1 in my 2.5g, and my wife has 1 in her 12g dx. All are reef tanks and none have aptasia and we have had no problems. I will swear by peppermint shrimp in all my reef tanks.
-Rabbit

 

[BigJPDC]

I never see one of mine, and the other one will only poke his antenna out of the rock a little bit around feeding time. IMO this was a bust purchase that I made because the LFS was out of the cleaner shrimps I was really after.

It could be that they are afraid of the copperband though, in which case I am glad I didn't spend to get the cleaners.

jp

 

[xanthid]

I have 6 in my 150. They wiped out the aiptasia over night. I make sure that they get pellet food or some squid bits every day. So far so good.

 

[vessxpress1]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1017905&highlight=Peppermint+shrimp


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1017369&highlight=Peppermint+shrimp

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1016870&highlight=Peppermint+shrimp


Here's some posts on them just in the last few days. Check out my post in the 2nd link. I think they're a pain.

 

[yoboyjdizz]

thanks for the links

 

[falconut]

I had one in my 90. I never saw it during the day. If I looked after lights out, I could see it running about. After a while I started to notice my zoas lashes getting really stubby and my Yellow Polyps lashes getting shorter. Neither was looking very good.

It took me 3 nights to catch the peppermint. Within a week the corals were looking better. It's been over a year and everything looks great, so I won't be putting another one in there again. And yes, it was a peppermint not a camel.

This was just my experience, apparently others have had better luck. Also, I had a few aptasia, which I scrapped off. They never came back, so the shrimp may have taken care of them.