Peppermint Shrimp for Aptasia???

[drgnthug]

I am starting to see aptasia pop-up around my tank and i was wondering if anyone has tried peppermint shrimp?

I am also wondering if anyone has recently had their peppermint shrimp breed in their tank and would be willing to sell one?

Thanks

[oct2274]

they do work, but they can be hit or miss. some will eat them and some won't. There might be some members on here that might part with a known aptasia eater

[random_ryan]

I am moving to a new tank and have peps that I will be selling soon. let me know K . mine eat it. atleast in my tanks they do.

[drgnthug]

Ryan - soon as this weekend? Also do you know if they are aptasia eaters?

[DOTZ]

They are hit or miss. I read that there is two peppermint, each from a different area. If I remember right the pep's from austrailia are the ones that eat apstasia, but I could very well be wrong on that.

[EvilE]

I had little aiptasia popping up all over my tank a few months ago, I bought a couple peps from ATR, and POOF!! Gone!! I haven't seen one since!

[random_ryan]

it will be next week that I move to a new tank. but if you can hold off till then. yeah mine eat aptasia

[racecaraz]

I bought some from reeftopia and all my aiptasia disappeared with in 4 days. I bought four for my twenty gallon it had been infested.

[random_ryan]

thats where I got mine.

[918ReefCpl]

The Atlantic ones with the black tails are the ones that 'supposedly' go after the apistasia. Like Ryan said the Reeftopia ones seem to go after them more so than others...We picked up 3 from Petco up in Anthem and they seem less enthusiastic than the Reeftopia ones...but who knows...our apistasia issues are finally down to 1 -2 litt suckers...and a diabetic syringe filled with white vinger injected into the stalk literally disolved them in short order...

[gcfiend]

Curious,
What do the peps eat once the aptasia is gone?

[random_ryan]

frozzen, flake ect.

[racecaraz]

Mine will eat any food I feed the fish. Plus I see it "scavenging" at night.

[918ReefCpl]

Same here, wether it be flake-frozen-pellets, they seem to go after just about anything, but completly left alone all the inverts and zoo's. Even the devil's hand they seem to 'groom' at night while scavenging.