If you do wanna try peppermint shrimp only get them at a trusted LFS that knows what their doing. Otherwise you might get camel shrimp or some other non peppermint shrimp.
Ok thanks. I’m debating getting a peppermint shrimp only because I can see a small on on one of my zoa frags as well. Any other aiptasia eaters you recommend for a nano?
Short of having an outbreak, not really. When I have aiptasia outbreaks I go with Berghia Nudis, but they only work in packs, and they are expensive. IMO, I would use either F-aiptasia or cover it in epoxy. You can remove both in a few weeks. I have seen Peppermint shrimp eat aiptasia, but only noticed they hunt in a small area and don't move around the tank, at least IME. Peppermint shrimp are cool to have, but remember that it will need to feed, whether its aiptasia or mysis/brine shrimp.
I know this is probably on me, but it would go and rip out food from the mouth of every single one of my coral. I think it has killed my wwc Illuminati zoa’s because they no longer open up and it’s been more than a month. It also took me like 2 hours to get it out of my tank and I had to rip apart the entire tank to do it.
I have 1 peppermint in my 25 and 3 in my 75 when i started noticing aptasia in the tank. So far they have been controlling it well. I heard nudis work great but thankfully i dont need to go that route yet.
I think I’m going to try the peppermint shrimp out. Hopefully my LFS has the kind I need.
Just make sure you get “real” peppermint shrimp. Good luck.
I tried peppermints, they never touched them. They did though kill my snails and eat them. Flipped them over from the glass and kept doing that
