Question: Will Peppermint shrimp eat Zoos

[solo]

Trigger think it's a nudibranch, and there are a lot of my orange pods missing, I loved this zoo! DAMN! How do I get rid of him?

make sure there is no nudibranch in your tank I just found two that hitchhiked from another members frags. they were eating my zoos

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Did you see it? it looks like a butterfly slug type of thing and turns the color of the zoos it's eating. I just took the frags out grabbed a paper towel and used the corner of it to pick them out. A tweezer or toothpick is probably ideal but I had neither on hand so I had to improvise. lol

 

[solo]

I'll get a picture of what I saw in a couple of days when my new camera comes in. Will show you guys then, it's driving me nuts, my beautiful frag is almost totally wiped out :screama:

Did you see it? it looks like a butterfly slug type of thing and turns the color of the zoos it's eating. I just took the frags out grabbed a paper towel and used the corner of it to pick them out. A tweezer or toothpick is probably ideal but I had neither on hand so I had to improvise. lol

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

dude if its buglike and eating your zoos just take it out! who gives a F about a pic..are you willing to risk losing everything to confirm what you already know? Come on man have you not suffered enough?! lol

 

[bigcapct]

get it out ,RO dip,ahhh

 

[stevec]

agree with rookie07. i had a peppermint and it ripped certain corals apart. i had to get rid of it. if the zoas are being eaten at night it could be the zoas dying and then the pods munch on them. you can see at night with with a flashlight. peppermints are more active at night.

 

[Amberjack]

FWIW, I introduced about 12 Peps to a 75 gal corner I installed at a local Rehab Center to take care of a horrendous aptasia problem. They made quick work of the aptasia. Never saw another one.

Since they've exhasted their natural food supply, they attacked a 'Curlyque Nem' and made quick work of him also. I guess 'cause he looks like a big aptasia. Tearing him apart, limb by limb, right in front of patients and staff. Couldn't save him. After that they never bothered anything else and eventually all but two succumbed to starvation. Wouldn't add these again unless I had another aptasia infestation.

sorry for the bad pic