Do Peppermint Shrimp eat tube worms.

[herkemer]

Has anyone had any problems with their peppermint shrimp eating their little tube worms? I know that peppermint shrimp eat apstasia but in one of the threads someone said they also eat small tube worms. We would like to get a couple of peppermint shrimp but we have hundreds of tiny tube worms that I don't want to get eaten.

 

[mlm]

I havent had a problem but then again I have not really noticed either.

 

[bang guy]

They are opportunistic scavengers. Tube worm would be really low on their preference list but they will eat them if they're starving.

 

[saltaddict]

My expierence was yes the one I bought ate everything in my tank in less than two weeks. I actualy saw him digging into the tubes to pull the worms out. Oh forgot to mention he no longer lives in my tank he is now back at LFS.

 

[slothy]

saltaddict - mine must had the same parents as yours, ehhehe.. used to chomp on my corals/feather dusters, but he didnt get a chance to go back to LFS, he became coral food.....

 

[kennerd]

mine ate my aiptasia, then allof my tube worms and vermetid snails.