Peppermint and cleaner shrimp together

Bthomas · Jan 5, 2019

I have 2 peppermint shrimp in my tank and want to add a pair of cleaner shrimp. Anyone have experience keeping them together?

lolgranny · Jan 5, 2019

I have in multiple tanks. Success depends on size of tank ime

Bthomas · Jan 5, 2019

lolgranny said:
I have in multiple tanks. Success depends on size of tank ime

Tank is 6ft 150 gallon

cracker · Jan 5, 2019

If I may jump in just once. How about a couple of peppermints & one cleaner shrimps in a 75 ? Thanks

peppe_67 · Jan 5, 2019

I have 3 peppermints and one cleaner shrimp in my 116g and it's no problem[emoji4]

lolgranny · Jan 5, 2019

Bthomas said:
Tank is 6ft 150 gallon

Definitely not a issue in my experience. I had a pair of cleaners and about 8 pep in my 180g. You’ll almost never see the pep tho as they come out at night to scavenge.

lolgranny · Jan 5, 2019

cracker said:
If I may jump in just once. How about a couple of peppermints & one cleaner shrimps in a 75 ? Thanks

Why not 2 cleaner? It’s always interesting seeing them paired up and having eggs. When those eggs hatch it’s natural food for your fish and corals.

Coralreefer1 · Jan 5, 2019

No problems having any combination of Fire, Cleaner or Peppermint Shrimp.

Deiblerj · Jan 5, 2019

Not a problem. I had 2 peppermint and a cleaner in a 40 breeder with no problem. Only shrimp that was the problem was a coral banded. Little jerk killed all my peppermint shrimp. He went back to the LFS after removing almost all my rock to catch him. I’ll never buy one of those suckers again

pecan2phat · Jan 5, 2019

I had 12 peppermints and 3 cleaners in a 180g and I would see the cleaners go after the peppermints whenever they were in the same vicinity. 2 months later, I see no peppermints in the tank.