Aggressive Peppermint?!!

[Noxsolaris]

So I have this one peppermint (the largest one) that has been occasionally acting a little itchy-bay (for those educated in pig latin). She has nipped the edge of my mushrooms, jacked food straight out of my candy canes tentacles and today I caught her standing on top of my BTA shoving her grubby claws down into the center of the nem. The nem started closing up and I shooed the shrimp off with a blast of the pipette. I fed everyone shortly thereafter and she hasn’t been bothering anybody else but I don’t want her to permanently hurt anything. Is she capable of harming the coral or am I applying human behaviors to a harmless shrimp?

ps. The nem seems fine-ish now. Still has bubbly tentacles, just a little drawn in.

 

[Utubereefer]

O they will eat your coral and outcompete for food. If I were you I’d set a trap for him and put him in your sump or overflow

 

[muzikalmatt]

O they will eat your coral and outcompete for food. If I were you I’d set a trap for him and put him in your sump or overflow

Yep, I had one that completely devoured a frogspawn frag and I suspected him of eating other corals as well. Not all of them are troublemakers, but if you're already seeing him doing this it's not going to improve no matter how much extra food you try to give him.

 

[Noxsolaris]

I have a couple more peps in the DT and they are fine. It’s just this one. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[fish farmer]

Yep, I had two constantly pick food out of a flower nem and had them messing with hammers that I hadn't even fed.

I keep a watchful eye on them if I have them in my tank.

 

[Utubereefer]

I put 10 in my tank to handle aptasia. Once the aptasia was gone they went after some corals and rock flowers… I trapped and rehomed half of em and everything is fine now

 

[Noxsolaris]

How does one trap a shrimp?

 

[Noxsolaris]

Nevermind. YouTube for the save. As I was assembling said trap, caught the cantankerous crustacean at the nem again, picking at the stalk this time. Threw some frozen meaty bits in the bottle and sunk it. Within five minutes she had bullied her way in, fighting off the other peps for the prize. She has been relocated and I have the trap saved in the storage cabinet in the event another decides to take up her itchy-bay mantle (no clam pun intended).

 

[Impala67]

Nevermind. YouTube for the save. As I was assembling said trap, caught the cantankerous crustacean at the nem again, picking at the stalk this time. Threw some frozen meaty bits in the bottle and sunk it. Within five minutes she had bullied her way in, fighting off the other peps for the prize. She has been relocated and I have the trap saved in the storage cabinet in the event another decides to take up her itchy-bay mantle (no clam pun intended).

Are you sure it’s not a camel shrimp they look exactly like peppermint shrimp but they are very aggressive usually peppermint shrimp are very calm and do not eat coral!!

 

[Noxsolaris]

Are you sure it’s not a camel shrimp they look exactly like peppermint shrimp but they are very aggressive usually peppermint shrimp are very calm and do not eat coral!!

I saw some posts mentioning that and I looked pretty close once I got ahold of her, but she still looked like a pep to me. Gave her to a friend with a FOWLR tank, so hopefully she finds her new accommodations more suitable.

 

[nicholas2010e]

I had 1 eat a Duncan and started to eat a hammer. Hammer recovered but my friendship with the shrimp did not

 

[Noxsolaris]

When she attacked the nem, oddly enough, we were having shrimp for dinner. The thought went through my head “why not one more in the pan?!”