Peppermint Shrimp safe for Pico tank?

[Starganderfish]

Looking for advice. I have Aptasia spreading through my 4 gal Pico. I’ve tried AptasiaX with poor results and due to the small size and difficulty accessing the Aptasia, its spreading and tough to hit with chemicals.
AFAIK, Berghia Nudibranch isn’t available in Aus so I’m looking at a Peppermint shrimp for biological control.
The tank has a Decora Goby and an assortment of snails - Trochus, Turbo, Nassarius, Cerith
For Corals there’s a small Torch, a Fungia, a couple of heads of Blasto, a small Gonio, a Bubble, a few Zoa heads, a tiny Birdsnest Frag and a tiny Monti Frag.
Live rock and a shallow sand bed.
Flow from an AI Nero, lights an AI Prime
My parameters are stable. I’m feeding chaeto grow for the Fuge and dosing All For Reef and Nitrate (nitrates consistently at 0.0 before dosing).

Is there anything I need to worry about from the Peppermint? There’s Apatasia on and around a number of the corals (Bubble, Blasto in particular) as well as growing on the shell of one of the snails. I’d like the Aptasia gone without risking the snails or coral. Once the Aptasia is gone I’d look to return the Peopermint back to the LFS, because my other tank is miraculously Aptasia free and already has coral banded shrimp in it.
many concerns?

 

[CoralB]

Absolutely!

 

[Starganderfish]

I've added a single Peppermint Shrimp on Wednesday. It promptly disappeared and I haven't seen it since. I think they're mostly nocturnal so I'm just keeping an eye on the Aptasai and will see if they start to disappear. I may add another one or two if I'm not seeing much change.
Sadly I still can't find any source for Berghia Nudibranch in Australia and none of the other biologocal options are suitable for such a small Pico tank. I was hopeful for AptasiaX but it doesn't seem to fully take them out, only knock 'em back and then they're small and spread.

FIngers crossed the Peppermint starts doing his job!

 

[CoralB]

Yes they mostly eat at night and hide during the day . Make sure you have a true peppermint shrimp . It also wouldn’t have hurt to put him in a smaller tank for a day or two and feed him some aptasia from your tank to make sure it will eat it and it’s the correct one . Look up the true aptasia eating peppermint shrimp . You will see the difference and don’t go by what the lfs tells you

 

[Starganderfish]

Yes they mostly eat at night and hide during the day . Make sure you have a true peppermint shrimp . It also wouldn’t have hurt to put him in a smaller tank for a day or two and feed him some aptasia from your tank to make sure it will eat it and it’s the correct one . Look up the true aptasia eating peppermint shrimp . You will see the difference and don’t go by what the lfs tells you

Ah, I didn't think about doing the seperate tank thing. I was kind of rushed in getting it home and in the tank - don't you hate when life gets in the way of patient and methodical fisheeping?
I did look at it pretty closely and compared to the images I've found and I think it's the rght one, but the difference between some of these are pretty subtle.
I think at least one Aptasia disappeared overnight - in a "I think there was one on that bit of rock yesterday and it isn't there now, but I might be wrong?" kind of way. I'll just keep an eye on it and if I need to add another i'll try the seperate tank trick

Thanks for the help with this

(A) Lysmata wurdemanni
(B) Lysmata rathbunae
(C) Lysmata ankeri
(D) Lysmata boggessi
(E) Lysmata pederseni
(F) Lysmata bahia

 

[Starganderfish]

Update: I picked up two more peppermints from the LFS. Spent even more time looking them over and comparing to the above photo. They’re definitely the right species which is a relief. Acclimated and added to the tank. One promptly vanished into the rock while the other perched on the side of a slab of infested bubble coral and got to work. Stayed there all day and ate at least two or three smallish Aptasia right off the corals base. Shrimp was gone the next day and I haven’t seen him since but I’m hopeful that between the three of them, they’ll start to make a dent in the infection.

 

[paparoof]

I had a peppermint eat a rock flower anemone once.

 

[Starganderfish]

I had a peppermint eat a rock flower anemone once.

That sucks. Sadly, rock flower anemones aren’t available in Aust so shouldn’t be a problem. Just has a small torch, small Gonio, a Blasto, zoa, fungia and a couple of tiny SPS frags. I think they should all be relatively safe.
I really wish I could find rock flowers, the colours are gorgeous but the closest we have for sale here are some pretty bland maxi/mini anemones.

 

[melfish]

That sucks. Sadly, rock flower anemones aren’t available in Aust so shouldn’t be a problem. Just has a small torch, small Gonio, a Blasto, zoa, fungia and a couple of tiny SPS frags. I think they should all be relatively safe.
I really wish I could find rock flowers, the colours are gorgeous but the closest we have for sale here are some pretty bland maxi/mini anemones.

They’re uncommon and expensive, but I have seen them. Try asking Michael at Gee Marine

 

[Starganderfish]

The Peppermints have done a good number on the aptasia. There's still a few in the back but they're definitely taking them out.
I sometimes spot one or two shrimps wandering around during the day but otherwise they're pretty stealthy.
It's been 10 days and I'd say 70% of the aptasia are gone.
Hoping they don't lose the taste for them once they clear them out and they'll continue to eat any new ones that crop up.