Peppermint Sourcing

[William Sharkspeare]

My understanding is that not all peppermints will eat Aiptasia, and that some may even eat your corals.

Any personal experiences from Reef Cleaners or Biota?

 

[Baldyreef]

My understanding is that not all peppermints will eat Aiptasia, and that some may even eat your corals.

Any personal experiences from Reef Cleaners or Biota?

I've gotten them from biota before and they eat aptasia just fine but they will go for any other food source (prepared foods or frozen foods) before they go for aptasia, as far as some eating coral this is always a risk but most of the time they are actually camelback shrimp being mistaken for peppermint shrimp, (camelback shrimp will strictly only eat coral) camelbacks have a higher distinct hump and a slightly different pattern than peppermint shrimp

 

[William Sharkspeare]

Cool thanks.

I reached out to Biota and Felicia sent me this:



For those interested:
https://humble.fish/community/threads/peppermint-shrimp-identification.3974/

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/lets-talk-peppermint-shrimp.928377/post-10472447

 

[exnisstech]

The ones I got from reef cleaners ate aiptasia. They're actually an entertaining edition once the aiptasia is gone.

 

[William Sharkspeare]

Some light reading:

https://repository.si.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/bad160e1-0f77-40ad-b4aa-da30e32a6c35/content

 

[BryanM]

Lysmata boggessi and Lysmata wurdemanni are what you are looking for.

 

[EtxReefer]

Reef cleaners rocks. Their peppermint shrimp cleaned out my aptasia.