Gotta love pepperment shrimp

nano10 · 04/08/2007, 05:05 PM

Brought 3 pepps yesterday to battle my aiptasia. Over 50 of them yesterday 3 today. Gotta love pepperment shrimp

New_Noob · 04/08/2007, 05:12 PM

Congrats, i love shrimp but peps are to small, they get chomped by my cardinals.

musty baby · 04/08/2007, 05:34 PM

I haven't had an aptasia in my rock since I bought peppermints. terrible thing is I spent weeks trying to stab then to death with bamboo skewers because they were tearing my lps to pieces ripping food out of them. Everything has their good and bad, peppermints are fortunately a very useful tool when you have aptasia, unfortunately a very pesky critter when you're trying to get some good growth out of your lps.

vessxpress1 · 04/08/2007, 06:06 PM

Yeah, they'll eat aiptasia....and anything else that hits the tank. Forget about ever trying to target feed again with any success. I've seen some of my LPS have the food 3/4 of the way down and the shrimp will reach down, rip the food out and carry it away. They even steal food out of my serpent stars' mouths.

Besides ripping apart 5 dollar lettuce nudis for snacks.

Yeah, they're great.

04/08/2007, 05:05 PM	#1
nano10 Moved On Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: south jersey Posts: 620	Gotta love pepperment shrimp Brought 3 pepps yesterday to battle my aiptasia. Over 50 of them yesterday 3 today. Gotta love pepperment shrimp

04/08/2007, 05:12 PM	#2
New_Noob Moved On Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Milwaukee WI Posts: 1,190	Congrats, i love shrimp but peps are to small, they get chomped by my cardinals.

04/08/2007, 05:34 PM	#3
musty baby Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: over yonder Posts: 1,751	I haven't had an aptasia in my rock since I bought peppermints. terrible thing is I spent weeks trying to stab then to death with bamboo skewers because they were tearing my lps to pieces ripping food out of them. Everything has their good and bad, peppermints are fortunately a very useful tool when you have aptasia, unfortunately a very pesky critter when you're trying to get some good growth out of your lps.

04/08/2007, 06:06 PM	#4
vessxpress1 Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NW IL Posts: 1,603	Yeah, they'll eat aiptasia....and anything else that hits the tank. Forget about ever trying to target feed again with any success. I've seen some of my LPS have the food 3/4 of the way down and the shrimp will reach down, rip the food out and carry it away. They even steal food out of my serpent stars' mouths. Besides ripping apart 5 dollar lettuce nudis for snacks. Yeah, they're great.