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11-18-2005, 08:19 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Mid-west, Illinois
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I just put in 2 Pepperment shrip, I hope they will work for me, Joe's juice works but I can not get to some of them things. _________  && &&&&24 GAL Nano Cube with 30 lbs of sand,28 lbs of live rock, 2 clown fish and now 6 mushroom, and still learning. &&PADI diver riding a 93 Blue Goldwing&&Logo by Nautilus | 
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11-19-2005, 02:04 AM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Pgh. Pa. Age: 50
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|  Peppermint shrimp
Not all peppermint shrimp take to them. If you got two then of course you double your chances of getting one that will munch. Good luck.  _________ Glass 90 and 110, skimmer in both 30 gal. sumps, 1150 GPH, plus a 75 gal fuge!! Yellow tang, several damsels, 2 lg flower anems, brown & rose BTA's (8" dia.) with 3 perculas, 5 ricordia, dozens shrooms, dozens of yellow, brown and green polyps, lots of snails, hermits, bugs and 3 inch worms. Mangroves, caulerpa, LR, LS, pics coming  | |
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11-19-2005, 07:56 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Clifton, NJ,New_Jersey
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Will the peppermint shrimp eat any other thing in the tank ( mushrooms or polyps)? Thats what i was told by my LFS so i bought a copperband and he solved my problem. Only he died and the glass anemone are making a comback. So i am thinking on getting either another copperband or 2 peppermint shrimp, just not sure if my LFS is telling me the truth.
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11-19-2005, 08:21 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Davenport IA
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The LFS advice strikes again. The copperband is a whole lot less reef safe than the peppermint shrimp. | |
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11-19-2005, 08:47 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Clifton, NJ,New_Jersey
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so what are u saying, my copperband did just fine with my corals. all he got rid of is the anemone. He did his job, but will the peppermint shrimp harm anything else? | |
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11-19-2005, 09:46 AM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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The Copperband may pick on anemones and feather dusters. They are fish often used to control aiptasia anemones in the reef aquarium. The Copperband Butterflyfish is a difficult fish to feed as it may need a variety of foods offered to it in order to start feeding.
The Peppermint shrimp may eat the aiptsia it may ignore it all together.. It's a roll of the dice.
Jim
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