Peppermint Shrimps in Reefs?

yoboyjdizz · #1 01/14/2007, 09:42 PM

Just would like to know other people's experiences with them in their reef tanks....

spanglish · #2 01/14/2007, 09:44 PM

I have one in my display and one in my fuge. I had and
aiptasia problem and they seem to have helped.
I had no negative experience.

stlouisguy · #3 01/14/2007, 09:46 PM

They are great in my tank. Clean the fish and cause no problems

Domboski · #4 01/14/2007, 09:47 PM

they are fine in my system. Although shrooms have been vanishing.... I think that is the camel shrimp.

Tony25 · #5 01/14/2007, 09:55 PM

I have 4 in my 55 and they dont bother a thing.

Rhodesholar · #6 01/14/2007, 10:45 PM

No complaints here.

coraladdict · #7 01/14/2007, 11:15 PM

I had two ,mated and the female would release the eggs which is good for the corals ect
However if you have a DSB they tend to eat the pods which is noit a good thing.

evil_monkey · #8 01/14/2007, 11:18 PM

I have one in my 13gl, no more aiptasia. I do think it is nibling on my zoa's though, a larger colony in now looking slim.

I really hope it is him and not a nudi problem. no new zoa's or corals in a while, so I'm not sure. maybe should put him in the fuge and keep an eye on the colony.

corals b 4 bills · #9 01/15/2007, 12:29 AM

Any shrimp (camels are the worst for this) will graze or attack any coral that seems to be stressed or ailing, I introduced a prized large neon green frog spawn into my tank and by the morning there was only one third of it left, to this day one year later I look at my frog spawn and cry, I tore down my reef to capture three camel shrimp that kept eating my clown fishes eggs, if you could do without shrimp than you probably be better off.

Waxxiemann · #10 01/15/2007, 12:54 AM

I added 3 at once and one disappeared right away (I used to have a longnose hawk) but I have had the other 2 for quite some time.

Of late, my pod population does seem to be a little on the light side but I have also noticed my copperband eating pods so this may be the cause.

Mine never ate aptasia though and that's what I hired them for. They are very interesting none the less.

frederickk · #11 01/15/2007, 08:14 AM

I have three in the 180g that I just add last weekend and hope for the best that they will work on my aptaisia.

dc · #12 01/15/2007, 08:58 AM

Mine ate the aiptasia and a lot of bristleworms too.

DJChesnutRabbit · #13 01/15/2007, 09:03 AM

I have 1 in my 54g, 1 in my 2.5g, and my wife has 1 in her 12g dx. All are reef tanks and none have aptasia and we have had no problems. I will swear by peppermint shrimp in all my reef tanks.
-Rabbit

BigJPDC · #14 01/15/2007, 09:10 AM

I never see one of mine, and the other one will only poke his antenna out of the rock a little bit around feeding time. IMO this was a bust purchase that I made because the LFS was out of the cleaner shrimps I was really after.

It could be that they are afraid of the copperband though, in which case I am glad I didn't spend to get the cleaners.

jp

xanthid · #15 01/15/2007, 10:02 AM

I have 6 in my 150. They wiped out the aiptasia over night. I make sure that they get pellet food or some squid bits every day. So far so good.

vessxpress1 · #16 01/15/2007, 10:14 AM

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...permint+shrimp

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...permint+shrimp

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...permint+shrimp

Here's some posts on them just in the last few days. Check out my post in the 2nd link. I think they're a pain.

yoboyjdizz · #17 01/15/2007, 11:42 AM

thanks for the links

falconut · #18 01/15/2007, 12:43 PM

I had one in my 90. I never saw it during the day. If I looked after lights out, I could see it running about. After a while I started to notice my zoas lashes getting really stubby and my Yellow Polyps lashes getting shorter. Neither was looking very good.

It took me 3 nights to catch the peppermint. Within a week the corals were looking better. It's been over a year and everything looks great, so I won't be putting another one in there again. And yes, it was a peppermint not a camel.

This was just my experience, apparently others have had better luck. Also, I had a few aptasia, which I scrapped off. They never came back, so the shrimp may have taken care of them.