Tricks for catching Peppermint Shrimp

[Krakanator]

All,

I was just wondering if anyone has an easy and reliable way to get a ps out of my display. I got him to control my aptasia, which are completely gone, but I caught it nibbling on a duncan that I got from zepplin within 3 hours of being in the tank. I am not comfortable with overfeeding or shrimp pellets to keep it well fed in hopes that it stays away from my corals. Obviously it has to go. If someone wants it, it will tear through your aptasia, but beware that he has a taste for duncans, and possibly porkyspawn.

Thanks!

 

[jiriki]

You can try a fish trap and put food and/or duncan into the trap.

 

[RedRider001]

you sure he was actually eating the coral not just trying to clean/get food off of it

 

[Pescado Amigo]

Put a net in one place and chase it into the net with your other hand. keep the net still, the shrimp will focus on your hand.

 

[RokleM]

Cut the hard top of a 20oz bottle off, invert the lip, tie heavy fishing line around the bottle, put heavy sinking pellets into the bottle, insert in tank, and check every 15-30 minutes I caught all mine this way in a few hours (6-8 of them in a 200g tank).

 

[Krakanator]

Jiriki - not sure i want to sacrifice the duncan lol

Redrider - not really sure, but i noticed a little damage to a porkyspawn frag two days ago, then last night it was literally sitting on the duncan and going to town, duncan had not been fed so no food inside a duncan wrapper. Duncan had stringy slime coming out like when it would tear into an aptasia.

Im going the better safe than sorry route here, figure I can kalk paste any individual aptasia I see, hopefully. I think Im going to rig up a trap from a waterbottle, put some food in and see if I can trap it. If not I am going with the old slight of hand net trick.

 

[RedRider001]

well good luck getting it out.
let us know how it goes.
Roklem has a very good idea

 

[kev2me]

I was cleaning one of our tanks yesterday and the peppermint shrimp in there jumped on my hand like a cleaner shrimp would.

So try using your hands!



:lol:

 

[jiriki]

Duncans are resilient and I doubt a peppermint shrimp can eat a whole duncan in the time it takes for you to catch him

Roklem's idea is probably the best I think.

 

[porky]

I've got them out by using a water change hose and just siphoning them into a bucket or something. It's probably not the safest (for the shrimp) or most humane way to get them out but it worked and was fast.
Let me know if you get them, I can take 'em off your hands.

 

[Krakanator]

I think I chose poorly the type of bottle I used, because I think the sneaky bugger raided the trap and escaped. Used a vitamin water bottle that has a fairly wide mouth, think it swam right out. I think I can probably just swipe it while feeding.

Porky, I already promised the shimp to a guy at work (same guy who hooked me up with my current tank for free, so I figure I owe him), sorry man.