Stomatella with peppermint

[fordp]

I recently discovered a couple stomatella snails in my cube. I have a peppermint and cleaner shrimp, and one source mentioned that peppermint shrimp may eat stomatella snails?

Does this apply to full grown stomatella snails or to their offspring? I'd like to keep my pep as the cleaner is moving to a different tank.

Also, is the source correct in stating that peps will eat stomatellas?

 

[Airwolf75]

I would guess no, if you never see them eat any, and the population is growing.

Do they ever eat, stomatellas? Nobody can tell because there are some many shrimp sold as Pepermints and so many kinds of stomatellas. So, I'd say the odds are yes, at some point a shrimp called a peppermint, ate a snail called a stomatella.

Don't worry they reproduce like crazy, so they'll never get 'em all.

 

[J. Montgomery]

My "peppermint" shrimp cleared out all the stomatellas in my tank. Though I'm now suspicious that it wasn't a normal peppermint after I saw a similar looking shrimp for sale at a LFS labeled as a cave shrimp?

 

[wes888]

I saw my cleaner shrimp eat one of my stomatellas a couple days ago. The shrimp just swooped down from his perch and picked up the snail while it was crawling on the sand. I had about 4-5 stomatellas before getting the shrimp, but now I can only find 1, which is the larget one I have. Before, I used to see the snails around all the time, so I'm guessing they all got eaten.

 

[Runfrumu]

hrm, i wonder if coral banded shrimps will eat them. I had quite a few of the stomatellas but have noticed recently that I cant seem to spot a single one.

 

[Joe-ness]

I used to have many stomatella in my tank. I added a pep (lysmata Boggessi) and i havent seen any stomatellas since. ill see if I can Find the link I used to ID my shrimp for you.

 

[Joe-ness]

Found It!

http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/27306/27306.pdf

Page 32 has pictures to help in identification.