peppermint shrimp

[braincoral39]

Has anyone had good success with peppermint shrimp cleaning up aptasia? I recently purchased some cured live rock but unfortunately it does have a good bit of aptasia on it. If the shrimp are indeed good for cleaning up aptasia, does anyone have a couple they would like to get rid of?

[rbmead]

Im in the Same Boat. My peppermint just eats around it.

[rbmead]

heres a link I found

http://www.aquarium.net/faqs/aiptasia.shtml

[Phantom Phish]

I had pretty good luck with a combination approach. I had probably a dozen or so aiptasia of various sizes on about 200 lbs of liverock. I added about 5 peppermints, and they cleaned up most of the smaller aiptasia (along with a small xenia frag I had in there), but they didn't seem to go after the larger ones. Those I blasted with some kalk paste, and that took care of them. That was about 6-8 months ago, and I've never seen another aiptasia since.

I've reduced the number of peppermints in there, so I now only have 2 left. But I'd like to keep them in case there are any remaining aiptasia that try to make a come back. HTH

[Mafiaman]

I added 11 small pepermints and they never looked twice at the aiptasia how ever they were very fond of my plate anenome.
Mowed it down in one night.
I lost the battle but won the war. I blasted the aiptasia with kalkwasser paist and got all but one, he's next!

Also my bird wasse got revenge on the little murderers one by one.

And no they were not hump backs!

[vyger53]

I had 30 gal reef that was loaded with those nasty things and 2 pepprmint shrimp ate every last one of them..and I never saw another one in the tank.
Since then I tore down the 30 gal and now have a nano...(6 gal eclipse) with 20 lbs of live sand ,one surviving shrimp some mushrooms and lots of hermit crabs.

[QuAcKeR]

I bought some button polyps about 2 weeks ago that had an aiptasia hitchhiker... about 1" tentacles. I added a pepp the next day and now that aiptasia looks pathetic... almost completely gone!

[sally]

I've had good luck with peppermint shimp eating aiptasia. If you get two of them they will breed in your tank. They are like clownfish ..one will turn into a female..one into a male.

[uryy4me]

I've thrown lots of Pepps in my tank and never had a noticable decline in aptasia (last time I was desparate and had a good deal on 25 of these buggers and still no luck), are there different species of pepps where some work and others dont?

[QuAcKeR]

Make sure you are really getting pepps and not camel backs. The two are easily confused.

[uryy4me]

they were pepps