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02-22-2006, 09:49 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Jersey
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peppermint eating feather duster!!!
i just bought a feather duster and as soon as i introduced him my peppermint shrimp started pulling on strands, is he trying to eat it or clean it, help quick!!
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02-22-2006, 09:56 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Margate, FL
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i saw that at the LFS but the feather duster was kind of dying!!
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02-22-2006, 09:57 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Margate, FL
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and oh nice Avatar   |
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02-22-2006, 09:59 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Jersey
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lol, i think the shrimp was picking at an already dead strand, it was curled and looked kinda white but the reaction of the duster from this was violent, he quickly pulled in, hes out now and the shrimpisn't bothering him at the moment, though he was very interested when i first introduced the duster
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02-22-2006, 10:06 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Margate, FL
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hopefully he won't bother him anymore!!!
good luck with that!!!
(when I was the shrimp I was like, this little guys is a savage lol, he was going nuts on it, must have been really hungry or really mad)lolol
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02-22-2006, 10:23 PM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
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Yeah, hopefully the feather duster is already old news to your shrimp! 
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02-22-2006, 10:52 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Jersey
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does this happen alot, do peppermint shrimp eat featherdusters?
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02-23-2006, 06:59 AM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
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Not that I am aware of.
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02-23-2006, 08:30 AM
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Spam Princess
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: portland, maine, usa, earth, the universe
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same thing happened with my very first featherduster... in fact if you search my posts, you'd find me freaking on about it
Mine just "tossed his crown" and I let it be... and I was giddy when his "feathers" grew back a couple months later |
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02-23-2006, 08:32 AM
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I loves me a water change
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Location: WI
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Ann-Marie...did a shrimp jump all over it, or did it happen on its own?
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02-23-2006, 02:49 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Jersey
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i moved the duster to a part of the tank that the shrimp doesn't often go(for some reason he stays primarily on the right side of the tank and rarely ventures far from a cave i have built there) and i havent had any problems since when i first introduced the duster last night
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02-23-2006, 02:59 PM
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Spam Princess
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: portland, maine, usa, earth, the universe
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Originally Posted by ChrisPrusha
Ann-Marie...did a shrimp jump all over it, or did it happen on its own?
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A peppermint attacked
When I saw this post, I almost thought my really, really old one had been bumped back up from "the vaults"
But my thread was... called " ACK! HELP! feather duster attacked by peppermint!"
Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to April 18th, 2002: http://thereeftank.com/forums/http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f6/ack-help-feather-duster-attacked-by-peppermint-8444.html
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02-23-2006, 03:03 PM
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the shutterbug mod!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: NE Wisconsin
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weird. I have 3 pepps and one hangs upside down right next to my big duster and doesn't even touch it. I do feed frozen mysis tho and every day those shrimp are well fed. If this is the case then I will continue to keep them well fed cuz I cherish my dusters!
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02-23-2006, 04:28 PM
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SPS Farmer
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: California
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I have had this problem too with peppermint shrimp. But they did take care of my aptasia problem.
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02-23-2006, 06:42 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Jersey
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does this problem occur with all shrimp or more so peppermint shrimp? the peppermint was cheap and i dont mind putting him in a smaller tank but id really love one or two cleaner shrimp in my reef tank, would cleaner shrimp be ok with my feather duster?
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