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11/23/2007, 03:20 AM
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What fish eat peppermint shrimp
Hi Guys,
I bought 8 peppermint shrimp to try and help my aiptasia problem (HUGE PROBLEM) and i haven:t seen them since i put them in a month ago. There is no decrease in the number of aiptasia either. Do fish eat them. i have a yellow tang, clown, small puffer, wrasse, blenny, dotty back and a chromis? would any of them eat the peppermints? i need to get rid of this aiptasia. its driving me crazy. i tried a CBB but it starved to death (-; HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP. thanks |
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11/23/2007, 04:07 AM
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ive heard of stories of them not being seen for weeks or even months at a time, apparently they are incredible at hiding. im still very new so im probably wrong but im slightly suspicious of the puffer if it was a fish
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11/23/2007, 06:32 AM
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11/23/2007, 07:19 AM
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The wrasse or the puffer could have eaten them. Try to look for them at night. That is when they come out the most. Also, they may or may not take care of the aiptasia... I bought some for the same purpose and they never tooched the aiptasia...
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11/23/2007, 07:21 AM
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It may be the wrasse. They do have a taste for crustacean. I'd always thought peppermint shrimp would be too large for all but the larger wrasses to handle, but I've heard stories of 6-lines taking out peppermint and cleaner shrimp, and my own peppermints would usually mysteriously disappear after a couple months, and I owned a 6-line at the time.
By the way, have you looked for your peppermints at night. That's generally when they're most active (I almost never saw mine during the day time). They won't always go after your aiptasia, so that's not necessarily an indication that they're no longer there.
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11/23/2007, 09:04 AM
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had 4-6 pmints and a fire shrimp... until i added a pistol shrimp... now aiptasia out of control too!
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11/23/2007, 10:57 AM
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The way peps work is to go for the babies. WHen the babies run out [probably they taste better] they start going after the adults. I've found it curious that they often go for the most annoying adult [one bothering a coral] first, of the adults. I've wondered if this isn't due to the chemical 'noise' of the fight with the coral.
I have also found that juvenile peps are hungrier. I got five juvvies, all the aiptasia disappeared except one in my sump, and four of them survived, at least. The fifth one may still be in there: I have very mazy rockwork.
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11/23/2007, 05:16 PM
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Ya, I would think that that having pep's with a puffer is not a good thing for your pep's. If you do indeed have a lunar wrasse, it may be eating them too. I have seen them eat things much bigger than their mouths. They will attack and rip things into pieces samll enough to fit in their mouth.
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#19
11/23/2007, 05:18 PM
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I have a yellow tang also and as innocent as it seems i caught it destroying and tearing apart a pep so you ought to be careful with them also.
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11/23/2007, 07:13 PM
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i say puffer also
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11/23/2007, 07:16 PM
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how big is the aiptasia
if they are bigger than the shrimp the shrimp won't eat them and make sure they are not camel shrimp they look a lot alike |
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