Peppermint shrimps eating LPS?

[Shabutii]

hey every one.. i dont know if this is a coincidence or not but i came home one day to a really fat peppermint shrimp picking at the skeleton of a once was acan i had... im not sure if the acan had just died and then the peppermint shrimp decided to clean it up.. or if the peppermint shrimp was what killed it?? just the other day i put in a new ricordea that i had picked up from the meeting and it was almost instant that the shrimp was on it..

any insights or experience on this issue?

thanks!

 

[stingythingy45]

I've never experienced anything like that from a peppermint.
But,I've never had a acan and a peppermint in the same tank.
Most times shrimp will investigate new things.I don't think t was trying to eat the ricordea.

 

[JayM]

Peppermint shrimp are opportunistic feeders, and will pick on corals if they are not fed enough......

 

[afboundguy]

I know someone who had some peppermint shrimps eat his whole acan collection! I would have lost what little marbles I have left if that happened to my acans

 

[Greg Hiller]

>I know someone who had some peppermint shrimps eat his whole acan collection! <

I'd find that pretty hard to believe. Maybe the peppermint shrimps were not id'ed properly. The ones you want for Aiptasia control are L. wurdermanni. There are others that have a similar appearance.

I've had peppermint shrimp (L. wurdermanni) for many many years, and have never seen them eat any type of live coral.

 

[Cherokee_Dude]

Same here, I have many... many... many acans in with peppermints and never had a problem.

I will say that as soon as I put anything new in the tank all shrimp and hermits have at it for a few minutes.

zoas, acans, chalices, doesn't really matter... heck even just a new piece of live rock is fair game They're just doing their job and cleaning up a bit

 

[Greg Hiller]

If you just fed an LPS and the peppermints were super hungry they might try to get at the food of course.

 

[Shabutii]

hm thanks for the input.. i dont know then.. i cant seem to keep an acan for the life of me.. all three i have put in my tank are toast =(

 

[jdemarco]

I have to say that I have a few pepermint shrimp ???? myself and maybe totally coincidencce and i was embarassed to even ask the question BUT i have recently been fighting the eventual loss of a torch one head at a atime and it seems to me that each time one head of the torch coral was mostly dead and no longer opening up or coming out, i would inevitably catch the pepprmint seemingly feasting on the dead head......i recently just had one head of a hammer die off and what do you know i come home to a peppermint once again seemingly feasting on the dead section...begs the question as to whether or not he had anything to do with the agitation of it to begin with or if he is just somhow intersted in the remnants or something left over....hmmm...i have no idea but i just wanted to say that I have infact have expereinced this to some degree

 

[Shabutii]

exactly.. i left one day.. my acan was content.. came home and i found my peppermint shrimp feasting on it.. it was SO fat.. hmm.. not sure..