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Old 01-14-2016, 10:42 PM
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If you want them for aptasia, these are the ones to buy
Bought two, two weeks ago and placed them in my 10 gal in the garage that is holding LR with these plague glass anemones. At least one was eating them and in two days, there are none left.
yes I want them for apitasia, tried Apitasa X and it made it a lot worse. would rather a "natural" remedy though don't want them going after my coral! What are you feeding them now there is no apitasia
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Old 01-15-2016, 06:38 AM
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You're rolling the dice with peppermints. While there supposed to eat aiptasia it's really a matter of luck wether or not they do in a tank.
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Old 01-15-2016, 07:26 AM
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You're rolling the dice with peppermints. While there supposed to eat aiptasia it's really a matter of luck wether or not they do in a tank.
I agree.
Thats why I bought two, and said in my post at least one of the shrimp was eating the aptasia. (I could not see both eating at the same time, so do not know if both ate. Because the tank is filled to the brim with LR) This says to me, J&L has at least some pepermints that eat aptasia. I think good odds
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Old 01-15-2016, 07:19 AM
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yes I want them for apitasia, tried Apitasa X and it made it a lot worse. would rather a "natural" remedy though don't want them going after my coral! What are you feeding them now there is no apitasia
They eat anything the fish would eat.
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They eat anything the fish would eat.
Ya, they eat everything. I have 8 or so in my tank, and didn't have aptasia to begin with. Just overall good cleaners, eat left over food, etc.

Oddly, peppermints usually being very secretive, mine are out all the time, can't trim corals without them climbing all over my hands.
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Old 01-15-2016, 05:39 PM
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Ya, they eat everything. I have 8 or so in my tank, and didn't have aptasia to begin with. Just overall good cleaners, eat left over food, etc.

Oddly, peppermints usually being very secretive, mine are out all the time, can't trim corals without them climbing all over my hands.
Yes they will eat the dead skin off your hands as well.
I had a cleaner shrimp, very mature, big one. I put my hand in the tank one time with a big scab from a cut, maybe a week or more old on the back of the hand. The cleaner went on my hand as usual, picking away, then found the scab. I was just glancing at him when I saw him hunker down with all legs while having ahold of the scab. He gave a huge push and he separated the scab off.
So surprised, and hurt, I whipped my hand out. Sure enough I was bleeding.
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