I plan on getting a peppermint or cleaner shrimp for my 25 gallon reef, when they molt should I remove the molt or just leave it there? Also should I feed them, if so what should I feed, I know that most of the time they'll find their own food, but I don't want them to try and grab the food from my coral/anemone when I target feed them.
Should I remove Molts
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ndrwater
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If they bother you sure, pull em. If not, good chow for other cleaners.
Now a word of advice.. (some may flame me for this) Peppermint shrimp are the devil. They will and do eat corals. Especially softer pollyp coral like Acans. They will go after whatever food they can find including whatever you are target feeding and then follow up with the coral itself for desert...
Now a word of advice.. (some may flame me for this) Peppermint shrimp are the devil. They will and do eat corals. Especially softer pollyp coral like Acans. They will go after whatever food they can find including whatever you are target feeding and then follow up with the coral itself for desert...
Really? I thought only camel shrimp ate corals, I know they are very similar, isn't there any chance you got a camel instead of a peppermint? I was planning on getting a peppermint because they not only are very common where I live, but they're also cheap compared to cleaner.
ndrwater
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Definitely peppermints.. camels are smaller and have the distinctive hump. Peppermints are definitely common, cheap and still the devil.. they are just fine in a tank without soft flesh corals that actively feed. They also sometimes work for getting rid of aptasia, but.... Always end up being a pain in the **** in the long run..
With a quick search here, you will find MANY threads confirming this...
cracker
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You can if Ya want. If it was a bigger tank I wouldn't worry about fowling & little tank most likely. it's up to you .
I was about to try a couple of peppermints for apastia that I picked up at my lfs that I refuse to buy any live stock from any more !
How come every critter that might eat apastia might also eat coral ! WAAAaa!
I was about to try a couple of peppermints for apastia that I picked up at my lfs that I refuse to buy any live stock from any more !
How come every critter that might eat apastia might also eat coral ! WAAAaa!
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