How many pep shrimp 4 14gal?

how many peppermint shrimp should you keep in a 14gal reef?::

 

what is your cleaner crew made up of right now????

 

6 red leg hermits, 3 blue legs, 1 turban snail, 1 turbo snail, one nerite, two nassarius. Give or take a few?

 

I use peps for decoration in my 75, dont see why 2-3 would be a problem....or 1 and a couple of CBS...just my opinion.

 

what is CBS?

 

coral banded shrimp///

 

I think the number is pretty inconsequential. I had 4 in a 60 gallon and they died pretty quickly. Thankfully I didn't pay for them. My cousins caught a whole bunch in the jetties on the gulf coast. They said there were millions and they kept about thirty, so don't worry about us destroying the ecosystem or anything.

 

I'm not a fan of the Coral Banded Shrimp. They get a little more aggressive than others and don't do as much fish cleaning as say a skunk shrimp. If you want something just for decoration, peps are cool, and they'll keep aiptasia down (if it's not infested). Blood shrimp are my favorite clean up shrimp, although skunks do more IMO.

 

I would do two. My fish love them and frequently use their cleaning services!

 

I would go with a Cleaner Shrimp and not a Peppermint or CBS. Pepermints tend to hide all the time. CBS will hunt out other shrimp and even fish and kill them. Cleaners are nice to look at. Stay out in the open and perform a duty (clean Ick)

J