New Xenia=Peppermint Shrimp banished to sump.

funny...I was thinking sort of the same thing. A camelback shrimp will pick at corals; not peppermints. However, yours do look very much like peppermint shrimp.

 

Don't camel shrimp have bright white lines?

 

So I take it you don't like/want your xenia anymore?
Did they do something to your tank or you just don't want them?

EDIT--Think am am still a lil P.O. about that to get the humor. So I just have an SOB peppermint right?

 

So the two major differences between camelback shrimp and peppermint shrimp is that the peppermint shrimp are clear/red and the camelback shrimp are white/red. The camelback shrimp also has a hump on it's back. The peppermint shrimp does not. Pretty sure ours is a peppermint shrimp.

 

They took over my tank in about 4 weeks time, now I spent one day a week just cutting them out and throwing them away (no one around here wants them) .... if I could only get rid of all of them !

 

too bad wellington is so far away. I would take them off your hands. Xenias grow slowly in my tank.

 

so the difference between old reefer and new reefer is ... new reefer wants his xenia to grow (yes, i'm a new reefer!!)

 

Haha true. I guess once you progress to other stuff it might be a bother but I only have GSP on a rock I purchased, the $5 xenia and Zoa combo,and random lil(<1/4") polyps on my other live rock.

 

Hey I am trying to get to the keys for my anniversary I would say save em up and I could take them off your hands

 

I don't have much left right now, but in 4 weeks or so, my tank should be full of them again