Peppermint shrimp and bta

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Anyone ever have problems with peppermint shrimp bothering bta? I put it in the tank and it instantly started messing with it and keeps lingering around the bta I am hovering over the tank just to make sure it leaves it alone Lil help please thank you
 

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No problems except them stealing food. Mine do not really bother my anemones much since the clowns are good about protecting it. Like all shrimp they are opportunist and will use their tiny claws to pull food from the throat of LPS. That aside peppermint shrimp unlike cleaner shrimp i think are know to eat bad anemone. So some may not be choosy. Mine never bothered with good or bad ones. If feel strange about it banish the shrimp to the sump.
 
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Yeah I spent an hour trying to catch them no luck so I just kept watching to make sure it makes sense though because I just target fed the new bta
 
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I was going to do that today if they were still bothering it. But just got home and they are no where near it so this is good. Hopefully when my clowns take interest to it they will leave it be when I target feed it. But now the bta is backed underneath a rock I can see it but the lights don't hit it. And can't see the beautiful color under the blue moons considering it's a rainbow BTA with a green mouth it seems
 

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Yeah man I had 2 peppermint nearly destroy my rose. Took me a while to figure out it was them. They would pounce on it and rip the tips off the tentacles. Now, the peppermints have been sumped and my poor rose is bleached and hating it.
 
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Well I figured that it was trying to steal the food I just gave it. It was it's first night in the tank so all good now thanks!
 

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Well I figured that it was trying to steal the food I just gave it. It was it's first night in the tank so all good now thanks!

Shrimp are opportunist. They will steal the food from down the throat of my LPS. I use pellets to keep them busy.
 

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