Missing Peppermint Shrimps

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  1. PierceEye

    PierceEye Aiptasia Anemone

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    Ok so Friday I bought 5 small peppermints to help with the Aptasia in my 65.

    Well yesterday I never saw them and last night I looked with a red flashlight and no go. Look this morning and still do not see them anywhere. Looked in the overflow; in the sump and filtersock; nothing, like they just disappeared.
    I do have a lot of hiding area as my rock is 90% Tonga rock so maybe they are good at hiding but I would thikn I would spot 1 out of 5!

    Current Stock:
    5 Peppermint Shrimp......MIA
    2 Green Chromos
    2 Firefly's
    1 Gold Bar Clown
    1 Yellow Tang Med
    1 Yellow Tail Blue Tang Small
    2 Cleaner Shrimp Lg
    2 Lag Cerinth Snails
    3 Lg Turbo Snails
    several sand stars
    1 Frogspwan
    1 Pulsing Xenia
    1 Green finger leather
    2 patches of Zoas
    1 Pagoda Cup

    Parameters are all in check.

    Any ideas as I do not think anything I have in the tank wold have ate them for dinner Friday night??? :confused:
     
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  3. grinder37

    grinder37 Whip-Lash Squid

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    they can be very good at hiding for days.I used to have a couple,but hardly ever seen em.
     
  4. rodcpierce

    rodcpierce Ritteri Anemone

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    they are still in there. Just hiding. I havnt seen the 2 that I bought for months, and just last night I noticed them both under a rock.
     
  5. ChrisBs

    ChrisBs Purple Spiny Lobster

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    i put a couple in mine weeks ago i saw the first and second day havnt seen them since i have no idea if they are still alive but i notice missing aptasia so i assume they are
     
  6. PierceEye

    PierceEye Aiptasia Anemone

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    Ha I found all 5 of them in a holey porus rock that my Xenia is on and it is a rock that has/had several small aptasia on and it appears some of them are gone :)