Are peppermint shrimps bullies?

[Niño]

So I just purchased a group of cleanup crew and once I placed all of them in, the peppermint shrimp starts going to all of my snails and flipping them over, dragging them and it appears to be attacking them or trying to kill it. Has anyone else experienced this before, or is it common for them to bully snails and hermit crabs around?

Niño

 

[Murfman]

They are eating the snails. They are serious carnivores and will even eat tube worms.

 

[butts182]

They eat my chalices and acans. I will never put another one in my tank.

 

[Rayzback]

The larger mine got, the more aggressive it got. It started to take food from corals which ****** me off... until one night, I saw my pistol eating it...guess the pistol had enough of it's crap also.

 

[FaviaFreak]

I hate pepermints! Blah

 

[clowns101]

Pepermints ate a hole in my old Green Carpet,never again.

 

[MimicOcto8]

holy smokes guys i had no idea peppermint shrimps were so ruthless. and to think i almost put a couple in my tank recently

 

[mersam74]

wow i wouldn't have know i have about 4 in my 190gal and i hardly ever see them, and everything is doing well

 

[skinz78]

I've had them eat my clams before.

 

[_Alex_]

i nevre had a problem with the ones i had, but i would hand feed them small peices of krill once or twice a week to keep the satisfied lol

 

[youngtimothy]

I've never had problems with peppermint shrimp other then stealing food from othe tank inhabitants. our you sure they are pepp's they're other shirmp that look like them but are not true peppermint shrimp.

 

[dougers31]

I had a pep. a while back, he became a bit of a nuiscance stealing food from my lps, so I gave him to a buddy of mine what had a few aptasia he needed to get rid of:)