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03-04-2006, 08:00 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: florida
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My peppermint shrimp yes its peppermint ate my small frag of hammer. any body know why? help | 
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03-04-2006, 08:06 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: jonesboro, arkansas Age: 29
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is it possible that your frag was dieing or dead and it ate it? just a thought.
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125 gallon glass. 3 10k 250w metal halides, 1 4ft 110w vho actinic. who knows how much live rock. yellow tang, domino, cinnamon clown, percula clown, flame angel,peppermint shrimp, camel shrimp, skunk shrimp, a few turbo snails, lots of hermit crabs, leather coral, branching frogspawn, mushrooms, too much xenia, and several different zoo's and button polyps | |
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03-04-2006, 08:09 PM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone |
i second that comment....and on a side note, are you feeding the shrimp? it doesn't look like you have a lot going on in the tank yet, you might want to supplement some food if the behavior continues. _________  | |
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03-04-2006, 08:30 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: florida
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could have been going down feed brine plus twice a week green seaweed and zoo mixed the other days | |
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03-04-2006, 08:37 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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Well 2x a week isnt that much... try direct feeding the pepermint if you can like 1 med-big flake per day, my shrimps come running to my hand when its feeding time  _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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03-04-2006, 08:41 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: florida
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thanks will try that. what kind of flake. | |
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03-04-2006, 09:16 PM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: MORENO VALLEY, CA,California
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man this post looks familiar?! _________ 135g 3" SB 3- 400w MH, 2 65w PC actinic, 2 10K PC, 40g refugium, EV-180 PS ,Mag 18 ret,1700 PH,2 maxi 1200's air water and ice 5 stage RO/DI  | |
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03-04-2006, 09:28 PM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone |
i tend to feed my sexy shrimp a couple of formula 1 pellets every other day...and they still act hungry. | |
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03-04-2006, 09:37 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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i feed my guys either reef-prime or formula 2 | |
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03-04-2006, 10:32 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Northern Virginia Age: 49
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My Peppermints swim upside down at feeding time, trying to get flake-lettes (flake fragments) from the surface of the water.
Mine are so shy, I can't imagine them eating a live animal. _________ -- SAW39 45 gal modified hex. Started and cycled August 2005.
2 Serpent Stars, Ocelaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Green Chromis damsel, Condalactis & Macrodactyla dorensis anemones, 1 big bristleworm, 1 small Banded Coral shrimp.
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