Video of my percs eating fresh hatched peppermint shrimps.

[sarahkucera]

I never thought to try to pull a few out and photo them.......maybe next spawn. Thanks for the good idea!
She just spawned two nights ago, so I've got to wait another three or so weeks.
I only keep the peppermints around because she spawns, thus providing fresh food for my tank. In the ten months I have had him, my mandarinfish has never been fatter! I swear he has dimples behind his gills he is so fat.

 

[redvipe2010]

Those are really cool pics!

 

[raoul]

We used to have peps that spawned frequently too, it was great watching the fish go nuts for them! We got rid of them when they started wreaking havoc on our other tank inhabtants.

A few years later, we have a couple in each tank - mostly for the fresh food we hope they're picking up uneaten food and the occassional aiptasia too.

 

[sarahkucera]

They are a pain in the butt because they were making my RBTA miserable, but now I handfeed them the same day that I feed the RBTA and they're perfect little pets.
The female peppermint can frequently be found at the feeding station waiting for her handout from the giant claw.
I've got 150 or so pounds or LR in a 120 gallon tank, so it's hard to tell how many I really have in there. I released six into the tank and I think the hippo killed and ate two or three of the smaller ones. I've seen three of them individually at the same time, the large female and two smaller ones that I am assuming are male because I've never seen them carrying eggs.

 

[raoul]

Our local reef club has noticed a difference in temperament based on where the peps are collected. So many people in our area had better experiences than we did so we thought we'd give it a try again.

Our previous ones still caused problems even with target feeding them. They wiped out pulsing xenia and a feather duster. They also picked at LPS during/after feeding, and I think the worst part was their attack on the hermits. When the hermits would molt and look for new shells the peps would swoop down on them, and quickly bring them to their rock lair where they would proceed to eat them alive.

The new couple I can barely see, so from the begining they already seem much less aggressive. Here's hoping!

 

[bowfront26]

great pics, for the record i was able to view the first video post... i use a mac