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I bought a Frogspawn the other day and after acclimating it I put it in my tank I watched it for a couple of minutes and noticed one of the peppermint shrimp start attacking it and eating the polyps, popped about 5 of them, I quickly put the 2 peppermint in my refugium. I bought the peppermints to take care of the aiptaisa in the tank I had a lot, and theres probably a couple of small ones left, do I risk putting the peppermints back in the display and eating the frogspawn. Has anyone ever heard of peppermints eating frogspawn or any other soft corals. Thanks for the help in advance
Not the latest video but pretty new
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75 gallon, 2 korallia #3s, Penguin 350, 20h sump, mag 7 return, 82 pounds of Live rock, Outer Orbit Pendant 10000k 150 watt metal halide, Outer Orbit Pendant 14000k 150 watt metal halide, aquac ev 180 driven by mag 9.5, auto waste conatiner 2.5L,tunze osmolator 3155 top off, 10 gallon or 20 gallon fuge in the work.
Last edited by eggerstout : 04-25-2008 at 12:33 PM.
Reason: video
Never heard of that, But I guess anything can happen with Mother Nature. Next time you bust out the video camera, try going a little slower, I got motion sickness.
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9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew
I have to yet ever see a peppermint to harm a coral of any type.. And you are 100% positive its not a camel back ? Its really hard to tell sometimes even I have gotten them mixed up before ): Not all of the Camel Back have a really pronounced hump in their back.. But then maybe you got the peppermint that rode the short shrimp bus to shrimp school ? It happens I am sure ..I have seen about everything to eat everything over the yrs in this hobby..
Yeah I'm 100% sure I have peppermints I even tried to make sure they were , Lysmata wurdemanni and not the peppermints from the pacific, I was like wtf when I saw the peppermint just attacking the frogspawn, I haven't had any problems with the xenia and green zoos being attacked and eaten. I'm think I'm going to put the peppermints one at a time back into the display and keep a close eye on them for awhile.
ok in your vid i never saw any pep shrim just a cleaner
also i have personaly never heard of peps eating any healthy corals and beeing as you had just added it there is a possibility it had some dead tenticals on it or was sick and the pep was just doing its job cleaning up
i would use extreem caution in reintroducing them to the main tank
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this is my tank thread you can find most everything about my tank here LOL
Peppermint Shrimp eating Frogspawn 
