Do Peppermints eat Brains?

I have had an open brain for several years, it doubles or triples in size when happy. I woke this morning to see 3/4 of his skeleton bare. Nothing has changed other than adding a dozen peppermints to a 200 gal tank to keep the aptasia under control. That is the only change made to the tank. All tests pretty much dead on.

 

I'm not sure I've never stuck my head in my tank

Seriously though, they are not known to eat any type of coral, however there's a shrimp called a camel shrimp that's commonly mistaken to be a peppermint that will eat coral. I'm not sure what type of coral camels eat though so that may not be it either.

 

I've heard people complaining about peps eating corals. If this is the only thing that changed seems pretty likely.

 

ive had them drag hermits to tha back of tha tank & eat them and eat my clams too

 

Put a pic online of the shrimps.

 

I had a peppermint nibble at my corals before, I removed him and added two new ones and they haven't touched it. That one was crazy though, he would attack anything that went into the tank, he would literally attach himself to my hand. (and it was definitely a pepper not a camel)

 

Could they have been zombie peppermint shrimp ? Imean if you added so many at once one of them could have had a small bite and thus infected the rest after he turned remember most animals aren't as well equiped to handle an outbreak like we are !


Watch , wait and remember zombies can't climb ladders !

 

I had peppermint shrimp dig food out of LPS stomachs and it was pretty obvious they were digging inside the coral's mouth. If skeleton is showing overnight I would not expect it was peppermints, but it might be good doublecheck the ID on your shrimp and make sure they are all actually peppermints.

 

As much as I value peps for their ability to eat aptasia, I wouldn't go with them anymore. I had one and once the aptasia were gone, it started going for other corals. It was def a pep and not a camel as well. IMO, I would take them back and stick with Joe's Juice, but that's just me.

 

I added to 2 pepermints to deal with what I thought was aiptasia. It turned out to be majanos so the peps didn't eat any of them. Soon after I noticed my brain and plate starting to show skeleton and finally witnessed the peps in action picking/eating the coral. I spent 2 hours getting them out of the tank and won't add them again. That was my experience...