Peppermint Shrimp vs. Aiptasia - Does it work?

[foamythesquirrel]

I have had good luck with Joe's, just having to make sure that none of the liquid touches any other corals.

As for the pepps, what I have noticed is that there is no more growth of aptasia in my tank. I always seem to have a few, and they are bigger which I don't think the shrimp is interested in them. But when I don't have a pepp in the tank, I notice several small ones growing. Figuring they are populating from the larger ones.

One of these days I'll go back with the Joe's juice, merely lazy most of the time

 

[cmor1701d]

That sounds about right. Peppermint shrimp will eat (most of the time) new aiptasia. Once they get a bit bigger the pepps leave them alone.

 

[capj64]

So from what I've learned on here...peppermints should be added in the beginning if you plan to have a reef tank. After the cycle

 

[mandarinlove]

The first peppermint shrimp I used it didn't work.

The second one ate them all.

Best of luck!

 

[Bige]

I just used aiptasia-x and it worked great. Instant kill.

 

[CoralMonster]

I know this is kind of a noob question but what is aiptasa?

 

[austinsdad]

Aiptasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[nxb161]

Xtalreef

This will help you out with figuring out what critters you may have in your tank.

 

[tone]

can somebody tell me if apastasias are harmful in my shark and ray tank with a little bit of live rock? i have no corals....just some starfish.....any help would be great thanks!!

 

[Mitchell0605]

Posted answer on your thread.