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04-19-2010, 12:01 AM
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it could be some food or algae or ick or something on the mushroom coral because thats what peppermint shrimp are for is ick, and extra foood
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04-19-2010, 12:18 AM
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well first thing that comes to mind when you say "eating mushrooms" is that you may have been sold a camelback shrimp(coral munchers) which look somewhat similar to an untrained eye. some lfs may unknowingly sell them as peppermints.
another thought is that it is simply doing its job and cleaning the rock the coral is on. very rarely will you find a peppermint eating coral. rare but i know only one person who was addement on the pepprmint eating his zoas. ps. the peppermint will only eat the aiptaisia when it is really hungry. this means if it is getting enough food during feeding time then it may not have the appetite for aiptaisa
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04-19-2010, 12:52 AM
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oh geez... am looking at pics of the shrimp youre talking about.. and i really cant tell the difference between the two. there is no obvious hump really on our shrimp. are their stripe patterns the same? is there any other way to tell them apart?
and yah we kinda knew it was a shot in the dark for it to eat our aptasia.. but we figured it couldnt hurt to try.. lol
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04-19-2010, 01:25 AM
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really hard to tell. mainly the white stiping on the camelback should give it away. where as the stripes on a peppermint are more red and translucent. no real WHITE.
http://forums.saltwaterfish.com/vb/s...melback-Shrimp. see this link. i didnt really read it but it may help. another link. http://www.siamreefclub.com/forums/i...howtopic=23277 Last edited by NU-2reef; 04-19-2010 at 01:35 AM.
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04-19-2010, 02:12 AM
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Ah that did help. its definately a peppermint shrimp.
he seems to have left the mushroom alone for right now.. maybe he was just cleaning stuff off it.. the one small mushroom is definately damaged.. maybe it wasnt doing well to begin with. everything seems to be interested in these mushrooms, the turbo snails, our blue leg hermit, the peppermint shrimp.. lol am feeling pretty excited with our first addition of corals (mushroom, and button polyp) how fast can we keep adding new corals? any suggestions as to what our next coral addition should be ?
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04-19-2010, 02:57 AM
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first what kind of lights do you have? as for your next coral....... its your call really. ricordea mushrooms are my favorites for begginers. most soft coral will be okay for starters. "begginer coral" list: mushrooms -many varieties zoanthids/palythoas. green star polyps.- start with small colony. they grow really fast xenia- also grow like weeds leaather corals- devils hand / toadstool / tree corals / and as you get confident start with LPS like: frogspawn / torch / hammer corals--- "easy LPS" just a quick list of what i reccommend. adding coral can be done as your budget allows but go slow let it grow. always research before you buy.
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04-19-2010, 04:10 AM
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04-19-2010, 05:35 PM
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hmm okay
 well we have a 46g bow front tank, been running since july. we have a crappy toms aquarium skimmer/pump combo.. with an auto fill ( we think our lfs.. just sells us the stuff that benefits him at the time.. we had no idea the pump was not very good.. lesson learned) we have koralia powerheads 1,2,3 (we were having cyano problems.. so we were told to add anohter powerhead and reduce our lighting time do you think this is too much flow for our tank?) we keep our temp at 79-80, sg 1.025 ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate less than 5 we have about 40lbs of live rock 2 clownfish, 2 bengai cardinals, peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp various hermit crabs, 1 turbo snail, and 3 sand sifting snails we just added a small green striped mushroom colony, and a small button polyp colony. we leave our lights on for 8 hours. we do weekly water changes of 10g ( is this too much?? ) we have a double t5 fixture anything else you need me to add?
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