Anybody ID this? Found on a piece of LR used to cycle tank.

I contacted the LFS who sold me the LR and he apologized and is giving me 2 free peppermint shrimp. They are really knowledgeable and assured me that they don't have camel shrimp so all should be good there. I LOVE the LR that I got as it came with 30+ heads zoa polyps for the price of LR ($12 or so) because the polyps were closed and had been on the bottom of their LR bin for a while I'm guessing they hadn't noticed them.

 

Just in case, do your homework and search for images of both peppermints and camels to make sure you can distinguish the two species.

 

Just in case you didnt know, that LR with the aptasia is loaded with button polyps, I made the mistake when getting in the hobby of buying a piece of LR with button polyps on it becase it was cheap, big mistake years later. They spread out and cover everything and are very hard to get rid of, almost impossible actually. And when you try and kill them, you get stung, and they sting other corals. I would just get rid of the whole rock and avoid the headache downt the road. I have never had any luck with the peppermint shrimp, I mixed up some really thick kalk paste and used a needle and put it on the mouth of the Aptasia and they ate the paste and quickly died, for really bad outbreaks, aptasia eating nudibranches work well. They reproduce quickly and swarm the aptasia and eat them all, when they are all gone they do die, but you can catch them and sell them easily for 10 dollars a pop. My cousin bought 5 of them for 50 bucks, and 6 months later when they ate all of the aptasia, he sold 20 of them and made 200 dollars.