Peppermint Shrimp eating bta?

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  1. geekdafied

    geekdafied 3reef Sponsor

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    Peppermint shrimp eats anemones. Not just aptasia anemones. Its a risk you take having them. An anemone is anemone to them.
     
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  2. abraKADAV3R!

    abraKADAV3R! Feather Duster

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    thats true i had 3 peppermints and put a pink anenome in and they started attacking it...they are very hard to catch also...i caught two and feed them to it and the last one is nice and cleans everything in my tank including my anenomes...the other ones also attacked my purple/yellow featherduster:p
     
    abraKADAV3R!, Oct 7, 2008
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  3. Phayes

    Phayes Aiptasia Anemone

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    If your shrimp senses fresh food that an anemone may have just ingested, they will pick away at it to get to the food as well. I have an ******* of a cleaner shrimp, to which I have named "*******", who used to pick at my LTA after I had fed it to get whatever food it had just eaten.
     
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