Peppermint shrimp eating majanos

CrunchyBananas · Dec 28, 2022

Only interested in first hand experience on this one.

Has anyone had peppermint shrimp eat majanos along with aiptasia?

I know aiptasia is their natural food source, and they can sometimes move onto zoas or some fleshy LPS, so why not majanos as well? I have a good amount I’ve been keeping at bay with kalk paste, but would like a predator to help keep them in check. I’ve read conflicting opinions,

HankstankXXL750 · Dec 28, 2022

I had quite the outbreak of aiptasia in my two reefs and got peppermint shrimp. At the time I had one or two majano anemones deep in a group of paly’s and thought they were kind of cool. The peppermint shrimp resolved all but the largest aiptasia, but then the majano multiplied like crazy. Don’t know that it had anything to do with the reduced aiptasia or not. But in my tank I didn’t see the peppermint doing anything about the majano. I did a major reset and eliminated a lot of them with a majano wand. This was just last month, and I have some more to work on.

Lost in the Sauce · Dec 28, 2022

I've never seen anyone claim that peps ate their majano problem away. If so, id try to buy that shrimp.

mfinn · Dec 29, 2022

Nope, tried it and it didn't work for me.

Ramses0314 · Jan 27, 2023

CrunchyBananas said:
Only interested in first hand experience on this one.

Has anyone had peppermint shrimp eat majanos along with aiptasia?

I know aiptasia is their natural food source, and they can sometimes move onto zoas or some fleshy LPS, so why not majanos as well? I have a good amount I’ve been keeping at bay with kalk paste, but would like a predator to help keep them in check. I’ve read conflicting opinions,

Do you still have majanos? I want some for a pest tank. I can pay for shipping

Reefahholic · Jan 27, 2023

The Pep’s we have here in the Gulf of Mexico are SAVAGES! Highly recommend for Aiptasia, but haven’t tried them on Majano’s. Shoot, they may even try to eat your fish. Super curious about anything going into the tank.