Urgent hitchhicker shrimp help ID please!

Discussion in 'ID This!' started by laf-n-gas, Mar 6, 2010.

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  1. laf-n-gas

    laf-n-gas Astrea Snail

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    I found a smoken deal on a colony of zoas (75+) but it came with a shrimp in the rock. It looks like a cleaner shrimp but it is clear while in the bag and has a black tail red legs and long "feelers". The back is not pointed like a camel back but if I let him go I will never catch him again. Is there anything else I should worry about and/or look for? I would take a pic but in the bag it didn't turn out at all.:-/
     
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  3. the fisherman

    the fisherman Vlamingii Tang

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    Can you get a pic of it?
     
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    2in10 Super Moderator

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    Put in your sump?
     
  5. laf-n-gas

    laf-n-gas Astrea Snail

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    hope this is better:)
     

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    2in10 Super Moderator

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    From the picture looks like an unhappy peppermint shrimp.
     
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  7. laf-n-gas

    laf-n-gas Astrea Snail

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    cool I was thinkn the same. It was the black tail that had me :confused: I have a large fire shrimp. Will they play nice? I do have have a few glass nems to.... poop on....eat
     
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  9. schackmel

    schackmel Giant Squid

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    is it a peppermint shrimp?

    I would dip the zoa before you put it in the tank, as I had a problem with zoa eating nudibrachs once. I am fighting a small outbreak now as a friend took her tank down and gave me some zoas and they have them.
     
  10. the fisherman

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    Peppermint shrimp
     
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  11. schackmel

    schackmel Giant Squid

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    yep should be fine if it is a peppermint. Make sure it is not a camel back shrimp as I heard that they can sometimes kill other shrimp as they get older
     
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  12. laf-n-gas

    laf-n-gas Astrea Snail

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    any issues with the fire? If no WELCOME TO THE FAMILY;D