Peppermint shrimp has to go!

[Rxb09a]

Alright so my peppermint shrimp I got when I started my tank up has to go. I got it because had some aiptasia. I haven’t seen any aiptasia in probably 2 months so I would think I’m in the clear. Well my peppermint has found the desire to eat my hammer coral. I have been trying to catch my shrimp but have not had any success. Does anyone have any tips?

 

[Scorpius]

Put food in a net and scoop him up when he goes in or gets close. Aquamedic trap would work as well.

 

[Fudsey]

Have you ever fed it deliberately? I have one in my tank with a hammer and I feed it every day. It never has gone after my corals and has never eaten any aiptasia either...

 

[Rxb09a]

Have you ever fed it deliberately? I have one in my tank with a hammer and I feed it every day. It never has gone after my corals and has never eaten any aiptasia either...

Yes when I feed the tank it eats the food as well. It doesn’t mess with any of my other corals.

 

[Scorpius]

My peppermint shrimp went rouge several years back. He decided to try and kill my rock flower anemone.

 

[Fudsey]

I usually will give him pellets right where he stays and frozen brine. He gobbles them up and hasn't, so far, touched my hammer. I know that they can but I have read that if you feed them directly, they MIGHT not touch your corals. Mine loves to clean fish and my hand as well.

 

[THX1138CY]

I'd slow down on the minticide reaction, I got the same way when I thought I saw one of my 10 peppermints "eating" my QBTA, turns out he was just cleaning it. I put a low light camera on the bta and watched it exclusively for the next 7 fays, never saw the peppermint go back over to him until after I fed the nem again, thats when I realized he was just cleaning the leftovers/expelled zooplankton.

 

[Captmcfly]

I have one that comes out and climbs my hand to feed it leaves my corals alone so far.

 

[falconut]

I had one many years ago start eating corals. It took a few nights with 2 nets to get it out. I waited until the lights would go out, hold a flashlight in my mouth, a net in each hand, it wasn't fun. I would through in some food in an open area, then grab the nets and go slowly. He was pretty smart, if I tried & missed, he would hide in the rocks for the remainder of the night. Good luck.

 

[Sipec]

Alright so my peppermint shrimp I got when I started my tank up has to go. I got it because had some aiptasia. I haven’t seen any aiptasia in probably 2 months so I would think I’m in the clear. Well my peppermint has found the desire to eat my hammer coral. I have been trying to catch my shrimp but have not had any success. Does anyone have any tips?

I have a cleaner shrimp and he likes walking on my zoas, as for the catching meathod i’d put some food on your hand, than when he crawls onto your hand put him in a bucket or something

 

[Bob the Bass]

1. Cut off the upper part of a plastic water bottle (just bellow where the curved top meets the cylindrical bottom)
2. Flip around the funnel you cut off and secure it back to the remaining part of the bottle (reef glue works well) so that the spout where the cap would go is pointing down towards the bottom of the bottle.
3. Add some mysis shrimp, something to help the trap sink, and just wait of the shrimp to crawl in.

*Add a retrieval string if you don't want to reach back into the tank after

When my shrimp and six line wrasse went rogue last year I caught them with the bottle trap. I use the same technique with a 2L soda bottle for a easy reusable fish trap.

 

[Rxb09a]

1. Cut off the upper part of a plastic water bottle (just bellow where the curved top meets the cylindrical bottom)
2. Flip around the funnel you cut off and secure it back to the remaining part of the bottle (reef glue works well) so that the spout where the cap would go is pointing down towards the bottom of the bottle.
3. Add some mysis shrimp, something to help the trap sink, and just wait of the shrimp to crawl in.

*Add a retrieval string if you don't want to reach back into the tank after

When my shrimp and six line wrasse went rogue last year I caught them with the bottle trap. I use the same technique with a 2L soda bottle for a easy reusable fish trap.

Did this. Less than a minute later I got it!

 

[dede]

I also caught my peppermint shrimp in the water bottle trap, was aiming for my anthias but caught the shrimp instead. He was in the trap when I woke up the next morning.

 

[dede]

Might want to keep him in your sump in case your aptasia returns.

 

[Bob the Bass]

Did this. Less than a minute later I got it!

Glad I could help!

 

[Oldsalt01]

After 1 year with no problems, both my Peppermint's decided to dine on 4 beautiful new Acan heads I added to the tank the day before. Almost totally destroyed them over night. They hung on for a couple of weeks but never stopped receding and finally just dissolved. I had been target feeding the Peppermint's to ensure my piggy Ocellaris's didn't hog all the food, but for some reason they went rogue anyway. Banished from my system forever, the shrimp were returned to my LFS and traded for a small Yellow Clown Goby he couldn't seem to sell. Used the bottle trap method and had them both in QT within 2 hours.

 

[ArowanaLover1902]

My two were going crazy killing all my inverts when I took them out, ugh I'll never buy more.

 

[rockstarta78]

I had 3 in my tank. Last week they annoyed my newly acquired RBTA so much that the small BTA split. I caught 2 within the same night, which took about an hour. The 3rd one is turning out to be too smart. I tried luring with food, blasting with RODI water through a turkey baster, nothing so far. I am going to try the bottle trick again. It didn't work last time. I have been trying to catch it every day for last 4 nights. It hides under a rock where I cant get to. The other 2 are in my sump.

 

[Leadfooted]

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[Leadfooted]

Alright so my peppermint shrimp I got when I started my tank up has to go. I got it because had some aiptasia. I haven’t seen any aiptasia in probably 2 months so I would think I’m in the clear. Well my peppermint has found the desire to eat my hammer coral. I have been trying to catch my shrimp but have not had any success. Does anyone have any tips?

The 20oz soda bottle works in about 5 minutes..... let me dig up a link. I just wine though your same thing with mine eating blasto's