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My experience with peppermint shrimp

Stephen8169301

Stephen8169301

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I recently put a peppermint shrimp in my tank to battle aptasia. The moment I put him in the tank he disappeared I could not find him for days I just figured ah he didn’t make it, well turns out these shrimp are nocturnal. I did not know this. After finding this out I noticed all the aptasia in my tank was gone except for one the rock was up against the glass so no way he could get it so I decided to try something I put the rock in front where I new he made his home needless to say the next day (today) it was gone! Im just sharing my experience and hopefully it helps others.

What’s your experience with these shrimp if you used them?
 
UsamaCh.

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Stephen8169301 said:
I recently put a peppermint shrimp in my tank to battle aptasia. The moment I put him in the tank he disappeared I could not find him for days I just figured ah he didn’t make it, well turns out these shrimp are nocturnal. I did not know this. After finding this out I noticed all the aptasia in my tank was gone except for one the rock was up against the glass so no way he could get it so I decided to try something I put the rock in front where I new he made his home needless to say the next day (today) it was gone! Im just sharing my experience and hopefully it helps others.

What’s your experience with these shrimp if you used them?
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I just recently discovered peppermint shrimp are good for battling Aptasia.
 
MadReefer

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I bought a few but they were not true peppermint shrimp and they never touched the Aptasia.
 
ReeferTom

ReeferTom

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Stephen8169301 said:
I recently put a peppermint shrimp in my tank to battle aptasia. The moment I put him in the tank he disappeared I could not find him for days I just figured ah he didn’t make it, well turns out these shrimp are nocturnal. I did not know this. After finding this out I noticed all the aptasia in my tank was gone except for one the rock was up against the glass so no way he could get it so I decided to try something I put the rock in front where I new he made his home needless to say the next day (today) it was gone! Im just sharing my experience and hopefully it helps others.

What’s your experience with these shrimp if you used them?
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Bit long ago that you posted but wanted to contribute.

My experience: I had 4 peppermint shrimp that lived peacefully with my Sixline Wrasse in a larger tank. Once I put them in a smaller tank, the Wrasse took them out one by one. So that's one thing to think about.

The other thing I learned is that there are many types of peppermint shrimp, some will eat aptasia others won't, there's no gaurantee even the right type of peppermint shrimp will go after them. I've read you want to get Lysmata wurdemanni and that for some reason LFS most often don't know what they are selling unfortunately, it's hard to tell them apart. Biota raises them species specifically, some of the others can pick at your corals trying to get food from them and stress them severly.

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Source: https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/27306/27306.pdf
 
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ericrodriguez

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ReeferTom said:
Bit long ago that you posted but wanted to contribute.

My experience: I had 4 peppermint shrimp that lived peacefully with my Sixline Wrasse in a larger tank. Once I put them in a smaller tank, the Wrasse took them out one by one. So that's one thing to think about.

The other thing I learned is that there are many types of peppermint shrimp, some will eat aptasia others won't, there's no gaurantee even the right type of peppermint shrimp will go after them. I've read you want to get Lysmata wurdemanni and that for some reason LFS most often don't know what they are selling unfortunately, it's hard to tell them apart. Biota raises them species specifically, some of the others can pick at your corals trying to get food from them and stress them severly.

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Source: https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/27306/27306.pdf
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Totally agree, the fishs stores usually don’t know or pretend to not know. I once went to sea level and the owner did know that shrimp was and he said yeah those will eat them and yeah he’s was right… that’s the only time someone says to me yeah that’s the aptasia killer lol.
 
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