This lil shrimp!!!! I need advice quick please!!!

[Tammi]

I purchased this peppermint shrimp from my local fish store. I was told that he will keep the test and then to me under control and he is reef safe. This evening I was eyeballing my tank and I see him picking at one of my corals. For the past four days or so some of mine my corals look like they were bleaching and I was wondering why, lighting hasn't changed and I've been moving around I've been moving them around like crazy thinking it was lighting placement or water flow. Look at this video and please advise.
Sorry I cannot load the video up. My phone only let me do pedal options unfortunately

 

[Cajunmillerboy]

I have had plenty peppermint shrimp and never had that problem. Did you dump any of the lfs water in your tank to contaminate your system?

 

[Rob&Gab]

They will sometimes tend to eat sps polyps.

They will nip at certain things

 

[Tammi]

No made sure none of that water got into my tank... So sorry so the discombobulated original thread. Apes to txt can't stand it lol... Yes seems like he's going after my Merulina sps and my open brain

 

[bugby220]

It might be a camelback/humpback they look very similar to peppermint shrimp and they have been known to http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+525+690&pcatid=690

 

[bugby220]

They have been known to eat coral*

 

[polancoeddie]

I was going to get a peppermint shrimp but after doing research. Alot of people had mix feeling s about them. They will sometimes pick at corals

 

[Orbela]

Peppermint shrimp don't eat corals. It's probably a species that looks similar.

 

[icereefer]

yeah I've had my shrimp tug on my corals but never ripped flesh off?

 

[Sully]

Are you sure it's not just stealing food from the corals? I had one that would take food out of Zoas, LPS and a Yuma at feeding time.

 

[lionfish5740]

I had one that went after a zoa right when I placed the colony in the tank. Chased it off and later found it tugging the skirt off the same polyp. That polyp has never looked right since but the rest of them are spreading. Darn thing had an insatiable appetite so it had to go! Bought a skunk cleaner shrimp now

 

[robandoban]

I've never seen either of mine pick at corals, unless they are eating food off of them. From my experience they are reef safe and very social. I have a few different softies and mostly lps with some sps.

 

[SuperDave531]

Got a swarm of peppermints to take care of an impending aiptasia problem. They ate those. Then they ate my acans. Then they in turn got eaten by my coral-banded shrimp

 

[schneid0c]

i had one that started snacking on my acans but i have had others that never touched corals.

 

[SamsReef]

i have used peppermint shrimp before to control aiptasia. only once i had problem where it started eating one of my plate corals. the good news is that they are extremely dumb and can be caught easily, if you detect they have gone rogue...

Now, I am just extra careful to QT everything that goes in my tank so do not need one. The latest scare was a small aiptasia on side of a gorgeous clam from a very very reputed aquaculture farm. Nothing that my eyes could not detect and eradicate...the other rule is if you see one, take out the rock and just cut a small portion around it out. do not try to kill inside the tank, because it will get only worse or wait forever for it to go away because it will not. sorry off topic....

Sam.

 

[WindeyD]

I had a pair of peppermint shrimp (and yes I am quite certain it was a pep) going to town on my frogspawn, no question it was eating it. Thankfully I was there to witness it and proceeded to spend the next hour ripping my rockwork apart trying to get the bugger out. No more peps for me!

 

[N1Husker]

I got some to eat aiptasia, they never bothered my corals. They never ate any aiptasia either.

 

[thatfishnerd]

I've had three of them, all of which did within a week and had a taste for coral.

 

[reggaedrummin]

I've had countless peppermints over the years and never had trouble with them beyond their thieving ways. They have no shame in taking food right from the corals mouths so I had to implement feeding cones. Beyond that they have always been model citizens. I believe there are two varieties of peppermint looking very similar but originating from different locations. One eats aptasia and the other not so much... if I'm correct on that, then perhaps the latter is a coral eater? (My lfs has only provided me the aptasia chowing variety) camel shrimp could be confused for peppermints and they have been observed to have an appetite for polyps

 

[gidenski]

It might be a camelback/humpback they look very similar to peppermint shrimp and they have been known to [url]http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+525+690&pcatid=690 [/URL]

Probably a camel shrimp +1 and get that lil booger out if it is. I had one having made the purchase thinking it was peppermint and it being in a reef tank at the LFS. Camel shrimps for sure is not reef safe.