Clove polyps amd peppermint shrimp.

[X-37B]

My 120 has quite a few clove polyps. They are brownish.
Should have tried nuking them before they spread but didnt.
Tanks 1 year old.
1 cleaner shrimp, 1 fire shrimp, and 2 peppermint shrimp.
All in tank for 11 months.
Cleaner and fire shrimps are 3 years old now from nano.

Was at lfs a week ago and got 4 peppermimt shrimp.
Put 1 in my frag/lagoon and 3 in the 120.

A week goes by and im looking at my tank and a large patch of the cloves are gone.
This morning another large patch gone.
Did I just get lucky?
Anyone else with similar results?

The only difference is the addition of the new peppermint shrimp.
Kind of weird but like I said earlier maybe I just got lucky lol.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Pic of clove polyps? Maybe they are not actual clove polyps?

 

[X-37B]

Pic of clove polyps? Maybe they are not actual clove polyps?

I will get one tonight.
Lights dont come on till noon.
I have been told they are from lfs and they look like them but Ill get a pic.
Found one but not very good.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

I will get one tonight.
Lights dont come on till noon.
I have been told they are from lfs and they look like them but Ill get a pic.
Found one but not very good.

Those look like clove polyps. First I have heard of them being eaten by peppermints.

 

[X-37B]

Those look like clove polyps. First I have heard of them being eaten by peppermints.

I will get a better pic tonight but its the only thing added and they are rapidly dissapearing since the 3 were introduced.
Strange but ill take it, as they were multipling very fast once established.

 

[X-37B]

Here is a better pic of the clove type polyps.
This rock has not been touched yet but 2 about this size have been stripped clean.

 

[Ernie C]

Hi, did you ever figure out what was eating your clove polyps?

 

[EricR]

Hi, did you ever figure out what was eating your clove polyps?

Interested as well.
Been considering a couple of peppermint shrimp but have seen scattered reports of them picking at corals.

 

[Ernie C]

Interested as well.
Been considering a couple of peppermint shrimp but have seen scattered reports of them picking at corals.

I don't have any currently. I always liked to have a few because I like critters in my tank and never had any issues. Then people started saying they could eat coral and I stopped keeping them, but I'm thinking maybe they were going after dead or dying coral as they are scavengers. Might test some if they will eat cloves for sure.