I have a peppermint shrimp that keeps picking with my rose bTA. Should I worry?
I have a peppermint shrimp that keeps picking with my rose bTA. Should I worry?
If it were a cleaner or skunk shrimp I wouldn't be worried as they would be cleaning dead tissue from the nem.
But since its a pepp, who knows? They eat what they want, when they want.
Good Luck.
"We shouldn't think of an environment where livestock can survive, we should ensure an environment where livestock can thrive."-Rabidgoose
"If it's gonna be that kinda party, Ima stick my ........ in the mashed potatoes!"-Beastie Boys
I had a half dozen peps eat about a grand worth of corals because it took me that long to catch them and get them out of the tank once I actually saw one tearing the flesh out of the candy cane acan that I have as my avatar except that it had about twenty big puffy heads by then. They killed all my acans then went for the acros and caps (a couple from pjr's tank), and when there was pretty much nothing left by the time I finally caught the last one and I'll never get peppermint shrimp again.
Last edited by handlevandal; 05-02-2010 at 05:45 PM.
Peppermint Shrimp=Sea Rats.
"We shouldn't think of an environment where livestock can survive, we should ensure an environment where livestock can thrive."-Rabidgoose
"If it's gonna be that kinda party, Ima stick my ........ in the mashed potatoes!"-Beastie Boys
The first four I managed to get in the middle of the night with a red flashlight and dark clothes on. It took four weekends to get them, one with no luck then one where I got two in the same night. I picked up a cheap brown acan as bait since they seem to like them so much and it worked for the two in the same night.
The last two seemed to figure it out and disappeared almost as soon as I got downstairs armed with a net and the flashlight, although I did interrupt one who was stripping the top layer off of a once healthy blue cap from pjrs tank. So over the next month or so I started moving rocks and using a big net and spending hours just standing there waiting for a shot at one of them. I got the first one on a Sunday after a couple of hours of chasing it and knocking stuff all over the place. I did the same thing for a couple of weeks trying to get the last one out but this one was the devil and finally I had to remove about half of the 100lbs of rock and all the fish and then just kept moving the remaining rock until I had him. I nearly flung him across the room when I knew I had him in the net and just yanked since I'd been at it for most of the day before success. So after a couple of months of insanity I claimed victory and got back to my real life.
Needless to say it destroyed the tank and started another mini cycle. The fish survived, but nothing else did. So after deciding to not give up I started over and left the tank FOWLR for about six months. I've added a few corals over the last few months that seem to be doing fine now, so I may actually have a reef in there again at some time soon.