Peppermint shrimp

[naesco]

Originally Posted by ickmagnet

I have an apitasia outbreak in my tank and it will be too hard to inject all of them so i bought 6 peppermint shrimp a few days ago hoping that they would take care of the problem. Since I dropped them in my tank, they have completely vanished. Either they are all dead/eaten or very good at hiding. I've looked all over the tank and can't find them. Is this normal?

here are the suspects:
powder Blue (unlikely)
blue legged crab (too slow)
green wrasse (maybe, but has never touched any other invert)
yellow tang (way too friendly)
purple tang (unlikely)
three clowns (probably not)
couple of damsels (doubt it)
carpet anemone or bubble tip (maybe one but all 6 would not be stupid enough to jump into their mouths)
long spiked sea urchin (possibly but too slow)
Blue regal (again, probably not any of my tangs)

Any ideas?

How did you acclimatize them?

[ILIKECOUGARS]

I had added 4 peppermint shrimps to get rid of the apitasia, which I had hundreds of them. Once in the tank they disapeared. I would see one the odd time, but never all 4. About 3 weeks later all the apitasia was gone, the odd apitasia would be back and a few days later it would be gone. I haven't seen a peppermint in over a year, but this morning one was sitting on nori seaweed that a place in there for the tangs. Make me wonder if the other 3 are still in there.

[Doug]

Guess mine is the opposite. Been in my various tanks for at least 4 yrs. now. Cleaned up the few apitasia I had. See him at feeding time but otherwise usually hiding. Pretty big now.