peppermint shrimp

I’ve never heard of a peppermint shrimp eating frogspawn or any coral for that matter but I just added a frogspawn to my tank after acclimating for 2 hours and as soon as I put it in my peppermint shrimp went straight towards it and started picking off the tips and eating it while some just...

so my favia has been partially devoured by my peppermint shrimp. The shrimp hasn't touched any other LPS corals I have in the tank. Just wondering if this favia coral can regenerate its tissue after having so much of it taken off? Should I just donate the plug to my LFS?

I have a heavily stocked and thriving SPS tank ... that also grows Aptasia shockingly well. I've hit the Aptasia with Aptasia-X, CaOH concentrations and added peppermint shrimp (3) but all I've been able to do is scatter the aptasia further into, under, inbetween my LR. I've read the many...

Heres the quick and dirty. aptasi in my tank. knowing nothing about Berghia I put ten, yes ten in my tank a year ago. Berghia are shrimp food and I just need the buggers gone. Have been trying the trap method for several weeks and no luck yet. Is there a simpler solution - turn them into...

We added a peppermint shrimp to our reef tank and he's been hanging out in the top corners by either the return or the intake. He occasionally runs around upsidedown by the back wall. Is this normal behavior? I was expecting him to find a cave or crevice under the rock, so him staying at the...

ok so i’m wondering on what the most reef safe shrimp is because i’m looking to get one and as i’m looking i’m not seeing very good things. so i first though coral bandit shrimp because i heard- they were reef safe but the i kept reading and it looked to be a 50/50 on if they would eat corals...

Well I finally am joining the team fighting apstatia, I ordered my first peppermint shrimp, after a month of letting 2 bergula nudibranch try and attack it. They did nothing so far, and haven't seen them since I placed them. So I figured, what the heck I'll order 1 peppermint shrimp and see how it goes...

So I have a nano tank that has been up for about a year now, and I'm starting to add some corals to it. My tank inhabitants are as follows: 2 nano clowns, an orchid dottyback, a lawnmower blenny, some snails and a peppermint shrimp. Coral wise, i have a small colony of GSP, two Zoa's, a...

Hey everyone my name is Johnny and I am brand new to Reef keeping and saltwater aquariums. I originally joined Reef2Reef to learn from all of the experts here but I am also looking forward to sharing my journey and knowledge with those that come after me. I’ve been doing a lot of research on...

My peps just released babies in my qt tank! So exciting! Thought I'd share a short video...

Hey y'all! I have a few photos to share of my setup. Added 3 macros today. Currently have a Clown and a flower nem in quarantine tank. Will post those 2 after introduction to display. Display has 1 Royal Gramma, 1 Citron Clown Goby, 1 Condylacti, 1 Bubbletip, 2 colonies of polyps, 1 colony of...

A littleback story.. a few days ago my peppermint shrimp was seen trying to take food from my duncans. On my IG @spellboundreefing a handful of people warned about them eating their coral and that I should take him out. Today I went looking for my peppermint ship my duncans ATE HIM! They look...

I have 2 black/white ocellaris clowns, and the three shrimp I added to the tank are DESPERATE to clean them. The clowns simply aren't having it. Could this be because they are tank raised and have never seen/experienced this behavior before or because they just aren't usually ok with being...

1) My lone peppermint shrimp (from Florida so it should be Lysmata wurdemanni) looks to be holding eggs. She's never done this before. So I used my Google-fu and found that they are proandrous hermaphrodites. They all start out as male and them become hermaphrodites (and maybe then become...

Shrimp die off I have had 2 cleaner shrimps for about 1 yare now, healthy and fine. I have also added 5 peppermint shrimps for about 2 weeks ago. Both cleaner shrimps have died the last weeks. And I have lost 2 peppermints as well. the system is 210gallons in total. Tank tread for more info...

So I noticed one of my rock flowers weas looking a bit "dishevilled" and was moving around a bit. Then, I wasn't able to locate it, which didn't really concern me as there are a lot of hiding places. But one night near lights out, I noticed the 2 Peppermint Shrimp that I have prowling about the...

Peppermint shrimp doesn't seem to work (I put in 3 small one yesterday and I don't see them anymore LOL .... let alone them fixing my Aiptasia). I had a bigger Peppermint shrimp earlier this year and it seems to work on those Aiptasia but shame, I think it gets eaten by the BTA; perhaps what I...

Recently I’ve been noticing my Candy Cane getting thinner and thinner, it now had it’s skeleton completely exposed. From what I’ve heard these are supposed to be dang near indestructible... my parameters read ok (outside of higher nitrates). Coral looked decent on 14 Feb & a week later (20 Feb)...

When I first put my Tube Anemone into my invertebrate quarantine tank my peppermint shrimp immediately popped out from hiding and went to town eating its tentacles. So I quickly setup a tank divider and placed all peppermint shrimp on the other side. My question is simply what is the...

So... For the past few months all of my LPS corals have been dying in two of my tanks. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is happening. I've lost thousands of dollars worth of rare hammers, torches, elegance corals, gonipora, chalices and acans. The acans have been dropping heads...

Hello friends! I have a couple of pest anemones in my 60 gal. One is a majano, and one aptaisia. I can only see the two. Just little guys. I've had them here and there and I usually just kill them as they pop up. Hasn't been a big problem so far. However I'm going to be adding a peppermint...

Or, I should say one rogue peppermint shrimp! I have one lone peppermint shrimp (refered to from now on as PS) left in m DT from a moment of shortsighted decision making one afternoon. I got a nice cleanup crew set up for my 120g and since I chose the larger size I was offered a free sea...

OK, so I just bought a new 2 head frag of hammer coral. I dipped it, acclimated it and added it to the tank. Within 15 minutes it was nice and fully opened, looked great. A few hours later, I see one of my 3 peppermint shrimp tearing the hell out of one of the heads, pieces flying away and it...

Hello Reefers, So within a couple days I've had all my shrimp (4 year old pistol shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp) die. I've also had 9 out of 10 hermit crabs die off. The shrimp and the crabs seem to turn over on their backs and then slowly kick around and die over the course of a couple days...

Hello! I just had the surreal experience of winning a salt water tank last night. it is 30gal and has a variety of coral, live rock, a few types of snails, 2 Peppermint Shrimp and a young Clownfish. I was able to set it up last night with 90% of the original water and added 3gal of distilled...