FT: peppermint shrimp

fishay · #1 04-15-2009, 10:47 PM

I bought this guy from JL aquatics a few weeks ago to control an aipstasia problem. He cleared the tank of aipstasia within 2 weeks so I have no need for him anymore. Will trade him for a small softy or LPS frag.

reefy · #2 04-15-2009, 11:04 PM

I have yellow polyps on frag plug for trade if you want 3-4 polyps each flag plug

RuGlu6 · #3 04-15-2009, 11:08 PM

pmed you.

fishoholic · #4 04-15-2009, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishay

I bought this guy from JL aquatics a few weeks ago to control an aipstasia problem. He cleared the tank of aipstasia within 2 weeks so I have no need for him anymore. Will trade him for a small softy or LPS frag.

FYI within a month of the shrimp being gone your aptasia problem will be back. I would keep them if I was you. Trust me I learned this lesson the hard way.

fishay · #5 04-16-2009, 02:44 AM

reefy: don't want yellow polyps, you got anything else?

fishoholic: Haven't seen any new aipstasia growth in quite a while now. If it does start to appear again I won't let it get out of hand like it did last time.

Still available...would like to get rid of him today if possible

tang daddy · #6 04-16-2009, 03:52 AM

I have dragon eye zoas probally 10+ polyps looks like this

jalemboo · #7 04-16-2009, 04:06 AM

little out of topic, but does peppermint shrimp really solve the aipstasia problem? Starting to get alot of aipstasia in my nano tank

fishay · #8 04-16-2009, 04:11 AM

tangdaddy: pmd

jalemboo: people say its hit or miss with peppermint shrimp, some eat aipstasia while some don't. Mine sure did, most of the aipstasia was gone within 2 days of adding him. The rest disappeared over a few weeks.

no_bs · #9 04-16-2009, 04:58 AM

fishoholic · #10 04-16-2009, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishay

reefy: don't want yellow polyps, you got anything else?

fishoholic: Haven't seen any new aipstasia growth in quite a while now. If it does start to appear again I won't let it get out of hand like it did last time.

Still available...would like to get rid of him today if possible

My peppermint keep my rocks aptasia free for 9 months. Not a sign of aptasia that whole entire time, however in that ninth month of living in my tank he died. About a month, month and a half later the aptasia was back with a vengeance. No new rock had been added and the rock that was in there had been aptasia free for 9 months, unfortunately after the peppermint died the aptasia came back. IME as long as there is something in the tank to eat the aptasia there will be no signs of it in your tank. As soon as there isn't something to eat the aptasia it will come back.

It's totally your decision, I just thought I'd share my experiences in order to save you from doing something you might regret. BTW the 1st peppermint shrimp was the only peppermint shrimp I owned that ever ate aptasia. I bought 13 peppermint shrimp in the years that followed the 1st ones death and not one of the 13 ever ate aptasia. Ended up buying a CBB to get rid of the aptasia.