eliramos
Valuable Member
So i know a lot of people are hit or miss with peppermint shrimp eating aiptasia so i thought id let you guys know what worked for me.
I have 2 tanks set up 1 is my 29 gallon bio-cube and my other is my 27 gallon holding tank full of live rock and some corals that wont fit in my D.t.
Well all the rocks i have in the holding tank were covered in aiptasia since i recieved them, so what i did was allow the tank to cycle itself for a while i honestly did nothing but top off once a week for like a month or so. i got the water tested and everything was perfect so i decided to add some peppermint shrimp to see if they could take care of the aiptasia.
Well for about 3 days nothing happened so i decided to stop feeding them to see if anything would change...WELL by the end of the week, aiptasia free!! So i rewarded them with some mysis:)
Now for the bad part (i mean in this hobby things rarely go that smoothly)
I had a rock anemone that i noticed wasn't opening up, sure enough the shrimp were on that bad boy like white on rice i finally removed it and hes now doing great in my D.T!
So to sum it up peppermints are more than capable of taking care of aiptasia and farely quickly also, however once they've gotten the taste for nems pretty much no one is safe unless they are full!
Just thought I would share my experience!
I have 2 tanks set up 1 is my 29 gallon bio-cube and my other is my 27 gallon holding tank full of live rock and some corals that wont fit in my D.t.
Well all the rocks i have in the holding tank were covered in aiptasia since i recieved them, so what i did was allow the tank to cycle itself for a while i honestly did nothing but top off once a week for like a month or so. i got the water tested and everything was perfect so i decided to add some peppermint shrimp to see if they could take care of the aiptasia.
Well for about 3 days nothing happened so i decided to stop feeding them to see if anything would change...WELL by the end of the week, aiptasia free!! So i rewarded them with some mysis:)
Now for the bad part (i mean in this hobby things rarely go that smoothly)
I had a rock anemone that i noticed wasn't opening up, sure enough the shrimp were on that bad boy like white on rice i finally removed it and hes now doing great in my D.T!
So to sum it up peppermints are more than capable of taking care of aiptasia and farely quickly also, however once they've gotten the taste for nems pretty much no one is safe unless they are full!
Just thought I would share my experience!
