peppermint shrimp devoured my acan

i guess i wondered more if it was something in the acan they like or if its just a flaw of the shrimp

 

I am off the opinion peppermint shrimp should be classified as 'reef safe with caution.' We see these threads a lot.

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I have 2 pep in my 150 and they demolished my aptasia problem in about 48 hours which was very good.
However they dont touch my majano's but they went through almost a whole colony of zoas on me. and i am sure they are eating other stuff i cant see.
Damn near impossible to get them out though.

 

i am going through the same thing with an open brain coral, so i came on here to see if anyone else had had this problem... i woke up this morning and they were just going to town on the open brain, (two peppermints in the tank) never had a problem before but i can tell u those guys are coming out of there!

 

My peppermints were fine for months, well feed and one day they started on my maxi-mini anemones and ate them all in a matter of like 48 hours, while I watched helplessly unable to catch them.

 

Anyone tried a trap for them? We have a couple in a 20 that demolished the aptasia quickly but are now on the SPS's and Zoo's

 

i put a plastic bottle trap with frozen brine shrimp inside... no telling what i will catch in that thing haha.... i would put pictures up, but dont have my camera here

 

If you can back them into a corner away from everything else and squirt them with a turkey baster full of ro/di FRESHwater, that will shock them enough to get them into a net.

 

I've been keeping peppermint shrimp for 2+ yrs now and have never had an issue with them. I keep a mixed reef too. Acans, hammer, zoas and acros. Shrimp touches none of em.

 

I tried using a bottle trap to catch a gorilla crab and my peppermint shrimp went in as soon as it hit the water. Krill seems to work well as bait.

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