Couple of pics and questions

[ubuntu.powered]

So i have a couple of new pictures of my 5.5 gal and a couple of questions.
My damsel

And whole tank

and i have a few more on my flickr account Here and for the questions i have quiet a few aiptasia in the tank and heard hermit crabs will munch these up, is this true? is there other ways of getting rid of these? and i was thinking of adding a some mushrooms or zoos after i rid the aiptasia is there any other corals that would be good for a tank this small?

 

[johnny&sin]

Originally Posted by ubuntu.powered
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So i have a couple of new pictures of my 5.5 gal and a couple of questions.
My damsel

And whole tank

and i have a few more on my flickr account Here and for the questions i have quiet a few aiptasia in the tank and heard hermit crabs will munch these up, is this true? is there other ways of getting rid of these? and i was thinking of adding a some mushrooms or zoos after i rid the aiptasia is there any other corals that would be good for a tank this small?
I have had better luck with peppermint shrimp eating aptasias... hermits never touched mine... or you could just inject them with "joe's juice"

 

[spanko]

Nope not hermits, peppermint shrimp. Make sure you get Lysmata wurdemanni as this is the shrimp that eats them.

 

[jigga w00t]

I used to remove the rock the aiptasia was on, the squirt some boiling water on it with a turkey baster. It worked! Then a few weeks later I noticed 2 new baby aiptasias, then there were 6 that I noticed. Bought a peppermint shrimp, now I can't find any of the aiptasia's! (I think he ate them all in the first couple of days) I'd even recommend a peppermint shrimp over a cleaner "scarlet skunk" shrimp because I've seen the peppermint scavenging the sand, which the scarlet doesn't do... and the peppermint is cheaper.
+3 good reasons for the peppermint shrimp.