Peppermint Shrimps Eating Feather Dusters?

[marki24]

I heard that Peppermint Shrimps eat feather dusters. Is that true. I have a few baby feather dusters and should i be worried?

 

[NYreefNoob]

feather dusters

i had bought one and no sooner than i put it in the tank my peppermint shrimp ate it, went with a hard shell fd this time and a week later good so far

 

[ellebelle]

I have two peppermint shrimp, no aiptasia and tons of little feather dusters and one big feather duster.

 

[Deanos]

I've had peppermint shrimp pluck feather dusters like a chicken.

 

[marki24]

damn some mixed answers here. Hmm what should i think?

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Peppermint shrimp are evil evil creatures, once they get done with your pest anemone's they turn on you and eat other things in the anemone family like my yellow polyps and zoa's. I would suggest buy another tank, set it up with a nice trigger fish and feed the peps to the trigger.

 

[marki24]

ur a meany hihi

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

some eat dusters and some dont. im trying to get my peppermint shrimp out now.. i have tons of little feather dusters and i noticed him nipping around and he trimmed my big duster, but he ate all my aiptasia and i had alot of them :smash:

 

[ccr]

My reading tells me it is unfair to expect peppermint shrimp to eat aptasia (polyps we hate) but ignore close relatives (polyps we like). The most conservative use of peppermints is to create a separate tank for them and move your rock a piece at a time into this dining tank.

 

[leoskee]

My reading tells me it is unfair to expect peppermint shrimp to eat aptasia (polyps we hate) but ignore close relatives (polyps we like). The most conservative use of peppermints is to create a separate tank for them and move your rock a piece at a time into this dining tank.

Thats a really good idea. I think I will try that. I am in the middle of a fight with aptasia and realized that ever since I killed a few off with kalk inside of the tank more and more are growing all over the place.

Im going to set up a small tank this weekend.

I was going to cook the rock but I remember reading that this does not kill them off. Any opinions?

By the way, I put 3 pep shrimps in my 75gl and they obliterated my feather duster population in a matter of weeks. I finally took them out when they started eating my open brain after I dropped one of the old school magnet cleaners on it and created a wound.

 

[alfani]

i had a couple last year, took the rock out. first time i drip boiling water over it, it cooked it for a while but few days later it came back so i took the whole rock to boil for 10 minutes, kills everything, let it dry for a day then put the rock back into the tank. so far i have not see any for a while now