Peppermint shirmp eatiny my acans?

[CJO]

camel shrimp and peppermint shrimp are hardly identical!

Sorry, I named the wrong shrimp. There is another one that is very similar to the Peppermint Shrimp. Can't think of it's name at the moment.

I was seriously considering adding some because of how easy they are to spawn and add another food source

I've been trying to do the same thing, but they all keep disappearing. I'm not sure who the culprit is, but my Neon Dottyback sure is fat!

CJ

 

[nixer]

Sorry, I named the wrong shrimp. There is another one that is very similar to the Peppermint Shrimp. Can't think of it's name at the moment.



I've been trying to do the same thing, but they all keep disappearing. I'm not sure who the culprit is, but my Neon Dottyback sure is fat!

CJ

everything will eat those baby shrimp. i have a bunch of baby fire shrimp in my refugium still.

 

[GeoHawk]

All I have for bate would be frozen mysis would this work or should i go to walmart and get some shrimp or fish?

 

[Aquaph8]

They're scavengers, they should take just about anything

 

[GeoHawk]

Well, I caught a wrasse and a clown, but the cube of mysis melted and floated out of the container before I could catch the shrimp. They both came up to the container and seemed very interested, but no luck. I guess Ill try again tomorrow with bate that wont melt and float away. At least no one will be hungry for acans tonight

 

[fragman2]

If you had another tank set up I'd say that you should move the Acan temporarily and let the Peppermints due their job. I fought Aptasia in a 150g system for years adding 5 or 6 Peppermint shrimp at a time and all of the various "potions" trying to kill them. Nothing worked. I finally took some advise and purchased 27 of them on line and put them all in the same 150 mixed reef. They not only didn't eat any LPS or Clams they wiped out the Aptasia in about 2 weeks. That was Glorious and totally worth it! When I had to move the tank a year later I found 4 or 5 large peppermints. Today, 2 years later that system is still Aptasia Free and the Pepermints are no longer around. Save the Acan, Move him! Oh I have room in my tank if you don't.

 

[GeoHawk]

If you had another tank set up I'd say that you should move the Acan temporarily and let the Peppermints due their job. I fought Aptasia in a 150g system for years adding 5 or 6 Peppermint shrimp at a time and all of the various "potions" trying to kill them. Nothing worked. I finally took some advise and purchased 27 of them on line and put them all in the same 150 mixed reef. They not only didn't eat any LPS or Clams they wiped out the Aptasia in about 2 weeks. That was Glorious and totally worth it! When I had to move the tank a year later I found 4 or 5 large peppermints. Today, 2 years later that system is still Aptasia Free and the Pepermints are no longer around. Save the Acan, Move him! Oh I have room in my tank if you don't.

You say u put in 27 and none of them went after your lps? Did you have acans or chalice? Maybe im over reacting I havnt got them out yet and my acans are still in there in a different location but still alive.

 

[bige]

If he picked at it once, he will do it again. Not all seem to eat acans but mine did. He ate them over a few days. Once the acan gets stressed from the picking, it is game on. Mine also killed a spiny clam and a dersa. Just from the random picking. Took me 6 weeks to get it out. Then fed him to a scorpion fish. Couldn't find a home for a coral eating shrimp.

 

[sfboarders]

Mine ate my acans and took the food from my fungia. It tore the tissue off from the fungia and it receded. I had to cut a slice off to stop it from receding.

 

[GeoHawk]

ITS WAR NOW! :hell_boy:Shrimp attacked my other more expensive acans while I was at school today. So far I have banished one to the refugium and have 2 more to go. I am just sitting and waiting for them to crawl into my trap. Ill post pictures later.

 

[ashton]

yea i had a local buddy who had an extensive rainbow acan collection and the peppermint shrimps he had started going after his. I got rid of my fire and cleaner shrimp because they would steal food from my LPS when i would try and feed unless I stayed by the tank to keep them off the corals.

 

[GeoHawk]

Just sitting here waiting for shirmp to walk into the trap has made me think of what you can do with shrimp.. Lets see shirmp gumbo, fried shrimp, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes...... Ill have to watch Forest Gump again for more.

 

[GeoHawk]

2 shrimp down 1 to go.

 

[GeoHawk]

What other critters are good for ridding aiptaisia? Right now, my plan is to put any rock with aiptaisia on it into the refugium and let the peppermints eat the aiptaisia in the refugium. Ill just keep the 3 of them in there.

 

[CJO]

The only other one (beside you) that I can think of is the berghia nudibranch.

CJ

 

[GeoHawk]

I caught the third shrimp tonight and thought I would post pictures of the trap I made for anyone else to copy. I found this on a google search, so it is not my idea. I thought it was genius though, and made catching the third shrimp very easy.

Trap set

Shrimp Caught

 

[GeoHawk]

I now have 3 shrimp in my refugium. Will they reproduce down there, and will there offspring get carried up through the pump into the display?

I have a foam/filter over the pump intake should I remove that or leave it on?

 

[nixer]

if they get sucked into your pump the will, but that wont happen with a foam prefilter on your pump.
they may also eat their own babies