Peppermint Shrimp eating euphyllia???

[john.m.cole3]

I have a small aiptasia problem and was thinking about adding a peppermint shrimp to help out. Thern a local buddy of mine said they need to be isolated from hammers and torches bc they will eat the corals also. Is that true?

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

I have not heard of them interfering with euphyllia personally. If you are concerned, berghia nudibranch may be a way to go. I tried the peppermint method when I had an outbreak starting. No luck with the peppermints (they didn't bother my torch or hammer either) I tried aiptaisia X, which worked like a charm. It still required persistence and hands on eradication, but in the end, it worked really well. Just noticed 2 creeping back in after being almost 6-8months free. I shall get to them this weekend before water change though and feel confident they won't spread.

 

[cloak]

It's a crap shoot with these shrimp IME. I've never had one bother a Euphyllia before, but I did have one strip a small Favia and a Chalice frag down to the bone one time.

 

[FindNem0]

This is what I did. Take it for what it's worth. I had a serious aptasia problem and it was growing all over my corals, stinging them and killing them. I went to tractor supply and bought a big needle syringe and another syringe with a big opening to suck them up. I boiled RO water and inject them and then sucked them out. It was a lot of work. I also threw about 12 peppermint shrimp in there and they cleaned up my tank well. One won't do anything. I would throw 3-4 per every 20 gallons. Not all peppermints will eat the aptasia. Never had a problem with them eating my hammer corals or frog spawns. After their done cleaning throw wrasse in their to eat em up and then sell the wrasse. I kept the shrimp. They are good cleaners in my tank.

 

[jonneyb]

I had 2 peppermints that were great at taking care of aptasia until I picked up a hammer frag they were all over it, I got them out but it was to late for the coral. I also had a larger torch at the time, they never touched it.

 

[reef lover]

They don't usually eat the actual coral. More or less they continually rob it of food and pick at it until it dies.

 

[Quah]

I've had a peppermint shrimp rip out the polyps of euphylia before. I witnessed the carnage with my own eyes.

 

[reef lover]

Yikes !!! To the sump with him!!

 

[twilliard]

Yup when peppers are hungry watch out! Never again in my tank :)

 

[reef lover]

No shrimp at all for that matter!! ☺

 

[Amhojjat]

Buy a file fish…they will eat entireaptaisia planys, leave nothing behind and they never came back…. I found apataisisa X to never work.
They actually increased the aptasia until I got that file fish!

also, I did have a peppermint shrine attack my branching hammer coral. I moved the coral away and the shrimp stays away now.