Reef safe!? Yeah right!

[Kyle954]

Purchased a few peppermint shrimp a few weeks ago and they are getting closer and closer to becoming fresh sushi

I just purchased a tiny torch coral this past weekend and came home from work to find this...


I dont know how these things are considered reef safe. Last time I ever purchase a peppermint shrimp!!! :uzi::headwally::angryfire:

for future reference I've heard blood red fire shrimp are the best? any thoughts

 

[M_55G]

Wow!!! I've never seen a peppermint do that before. I've always had them and they never touched any corals.

 

[knukles55]

you positive they are peppermint shrimp and not camel shrimp?

 

[nivram]

Not uncommon. I've also caught them on my acans at night.

 

[sarko]

ive had em eat my first ever birds nest

 

[rovster]

Are you sure the torch didn't die and they were eating the crap? Hard to believe a shrimp can decimate an entire head overnight. Damage it yes, but clean it out?

 

[Kyle954]

you positive they are peppermint shrimp and not camel shrimp?

yeah already did my research on that. White (milky) with red is the camel. Red/clear is peppermint which is what I have

Are you sure the torch didn't die and they were eating the crap? Hard to believe a shrimp can decimate an entire head overnight. Damage it yes, but clean it out?

Well I went to work Monday morning with it perfectly in tact. Came home Monday evening and it was gone. Didn't see a tentacle or any trace of it anywhere in tank.
I'm not sure what else could've happened.....

When I put my hammer in the tank a few months ago one of the peppermints came up to it and started picking at it while I was standing right in front of it and I grabbed my glass scrapper and scared him off and hasn't since messed with it "fingers crossed"

 

[ska d]

You got camels.

 

[Kyle954]

Here's some pics for you. I mean call me crazy but I swear these are peppermint? Also camel shrimp I thought had like a unique beak to them like a unicorn lol
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[G_Sanab922]

in my opinion it's hit or miss, I have one camel, one pepp and a sargassum. None of them have come close to even touching my corals and they get along great.

 

[SawdustInTank]

I have had the same experience in the past. I had both my camel and peppermints eat a newly purchased open brain bone dry over night. Its interesting to see what they do to something new that you purchased rather than attack something older in your tank. I will not purchase either again.

 

[necrio]

Wow, I have had them too. Nothing ever went wrong. They even came up to feed out of my hand a lot.

But, the new shrimp I have ( Cleaners) they just walk over every coral they can TO Get food.. Kindda ****es me off tbh.

 

[Kyle954]

Wow, I have had them too. Nothing ever went wrong. They even came up to feed out of my hand a lot.

But, the new shrimp I have ( Cleaner just walk over every coral they can TO Get food.. Kindda ****es me off tbh.

Mine are crazy then. One time I put my hand in there to move a frag and one of them came up and like wacked my finger with his tail. Scared the **** out of me because he came out of nowhere.

But yeah mine walk over the corals like it's no big deal :mad2:

 

[dadummy]

could be the brown jelly disease on the torch, wipes them out in hours and the peps were cleaning up the mess. Not sticking up for the little bastages, could have very well been them

 

[Kyle954]

could be the brown jelly disease on the torch, wipes them out in hours and the peps were cleaning up the mess. Not sticking up for the little bastages, could have very well been them

Could be possible, I mean anything is......but I never saw any issues over the weekend nor the morning I left for work. So unless something appeared within the time I was at work then there was no way I would ever know at this point :hmm4:

 

[gemini aquarius(t)]

It does look a lot like BJD. Peps will do it too though, I had one eat my fungia plate in a day.. Amazing how fast they can work

 

[Kyle954]

It does look a lot like BJD. Peps will do it too though, I had one eat my fungia plate in a day.. Amazing how fast they can work

I thought the common sign of BJD was a brown slime coming from tentacles? The picture I posted is just what's left of the skeleton.. unless I'm missing something in the picture.. :worried: