Likes chitons

mark · #1 01-11-2007, 01:30 AM

But hey, can only find one aiptasia

andsoitgoes · #2 01-11-2007, 01:35 AM

Oh no! LOL - crap, I didn't think about that when I bought my chiton. D'oh.

EVIL SHRIMP!!

Joe Reefer · #3 01-11-2007, 02:06 PM

Nice shot, did you catch him with the lights off. I have watched my peppermint shrimp do the same thing with small snails.

mark · #4 01-11-2007, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

Nice shot, did you catch him with the lights off. I have watched my peppermint shrimp do the same thing with small snails.

In the open with the MH on.

Got 2 a couple of months ago (one's MIA now) but from the start they both were always visible during the day, but usually under a ledge.

i have crabs · #5 01-11-2007, 02:19 PM

mine perfers colt coral frags,but at least he also eats aiptasia

Delphinus · #6 01-11-2007, 05:41 PM

That's not a chiton, that's a stomatella snail.

But yeah shrimp (at least both peppermints and cleaners, IME) will pretty much decimate a tank's population of stomatella snails. Too bad but I guess there's always some give and take no matter what you choose to keep...