cephcrazy
Cuttlefish
Having a very hard time catching these menaces? Any proven traps?? or techniques in catching them?
Pepermint shrimp...
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Bosco83
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Take out all of your rocks! Or make a trap with a 1 liter bottle cut the top off and then stick it back in up side down, then poke some holes in it and put food in there and wait.
Brian
menace78
Well-known member
menaces? what did they do? I've never had any problem with them except taking the ride down to the sump over and over.
cookie
cat
I thought peppermint shrimp were helpful??
1fishkeeper
Keeper of the algae
They are helpful, I also what to know what happened to make you want to pull them out of your tank.
Bosco83
Well-known member
Mine were evil little guys they would kill my snails. If you google this a lot of people have had problems like this and dislike them.
Brian
Brian
AdmiralDuke
amphipod
i just saw a peppermint shrimp tear apart an astrea last week. kinda cool looking, but i was really mad at it. I got it out by not feeding the tank for a couple of days. then when my lights turned off, I put food in a net and it immediately jumped into it. needless to say, it no longer a threat to any of my snails.
Darthv247
Well-known member
yup some attack snails and even some soft corals.
bigblue141
Salty Squid
All the threads and articles I've read said Peppermints are good and reef safe. Camel Backs are often "mis-labeled" as peppermints. Camel Back shrimp will eat your softies and anything else they can get away with. I had an aptasia problem in my tank, dropped in 5 peppermints and no longer have any aptasia in my tank. The only thing I have problems with is I catch hermits eating my snails if they tip over.
Darthv247
Well-known member
it just depends on the shrimp i think. even common cleaner shrimps have been known to nip at xenia etc on occasion. camel backs should be pretty obviously different since they have a huge hump on their backs but who knows.
All that being said i think the advantages of peppermint shrimps and common cleaners outwiegh the possible negatives. Nothing pleases me more than to see a cleaner shrimp clinging to a fish cleaning parrasites off,dead skin etc or to see a peppermint obliterating an apstasia.
All that being said i think the advantages of peppermint shrimps and common cleaners outwiegh the possible negatives. Nothing pleases me more than to see a cleaner shrimp clinging to a fish cleaning parrasites off,dead skin etc or to see a peppermint obliterating an apstasia.
cephcrazy
Cuttlefish
The dancing peppermints I have did their job and ate the apstasia...But I have 8 and their like cockroach's and eat every scrap of food in the tank starving out the other inhabitants and they eat worms (Hawaiian fans).
bigblue141
Salty Squid
To get them out of your tank, just pull the rock that they are attached to out of the tank and let it sit in a 5 gallon bucket. They will crawl off the rock and walk around the bottom of the bucket. At least that's how I pulled mine out of my tank on accident when I decided to rearange my rock.
cephcrazy
Cuttlefish
Home made crab trap BACK FIRE!!!!
Made a trap out of galvanized zinc wire was told the same stuff as a regular crab trap would be OK for salt KILLED almost all my inverts except the peppermints and has seriously harmed my mushrooms, ananome's , zoa's, Dead brittle stars dead pistol shrimp Large emerald... Pretty much crashed the tank and the pepermints live on!!!
Made a trap out of galvanized zinc wire was told the same stuff as a regular crab trap would be OK for salt KILLED almost all my inverts except the peppermints and has seriously harmed my mushrooms, ananome's , zoa's, Dead brittle stars dead pistol shrimp Large emerald... Pretty much crashed the tank and the pepermints live on!!!
Darthv247
Well-known member
ouch!! yeah never put metal in your tank for one and yah gotta use something less harmful so you can release what you dont want to catch without harming it
cephcrazy
Cuttlefish
Some Quick water changes and I think most of the inhabitants will be fine now and the pistol did make it
But still no luck with the peppermints can't pull the rock too large and to much growth that would be damaged?
But still no luck with the peppermints can't pull the rock too large and to much growth that would be damaged?I don't know if this will help or not but here is a good article on peppermint vs camel shrimp. It still doesn't help your problem but I have seen many times camel being mistaken for peppermint.
http://fish.suite101.com/article.cfm/peppermint_shrimp_imposters
http://fish.suite101.com/article.cfm/peppermint_shrimp_imposters
cephcrazy
Cuttlefish
"I don't know if this will help or not but here is a good article on peppermint vs camel shrimp. It still doesn't help your problem but I have seen many times camel being mistaken for peppermint."
That's insulting!!
There is also a difference in peppermints that are more aggressive and some that are less so but the problem, I have is too many in my tank. I have eight and they ate the apstasia and now are eating everything else.
That's insulting!!
There is also a difference in peppermints that are more aggressive and some that are less so but the problem, I have is too many in my tank. I have eight and they ate the apstasia and now are eating everything else.
alki
Well-known member
1 or 2 was good for me. 5 and they turned into little bastards. I was able to catch 4 and kept the other one with no problems for a long time.
The only way I could get them was to not feed for a day or 2 and lure him into a net with food in it. They can only move fast backwards so have 2 nets.
The only way I could get them was to not feed for a day or 2 and lure him into a net with food in it. They can only move fast backwards so have 2 nets.
