leigh
Active Member
Yeah, I've got skunk cleaners and peppermint shrimp. Both will eat anything you feed your fish rather happily. Skunk cleaners are known for also 'cleaning' your fish of parasites. Peppermint shrimp, while known to be cleaners in the wild, rarely clean in the home aquarium--but they will gladly wipe out nuisance aptaisia for you if you have any problems with that. I mostly got a bunch of peppermint shrimp for my invert tank to add color and movement. When I started to have an aptaisia problem I put a few in my reef and they have been model tank mates. In fact, today I just moved 2 also from the invert tank into my nano-tank at work. Sometimes they get a bad name for eating polyps, but personally I believe this is due solely to people confusing them with camel back shrimp (who do eat polyps). I have never had a problem with them; heck i've never even seem them express an interest in anything other than aptaisia or fish food. So yeah, if you're looking to add shrimp I recommend skunk cleaners and peppermint shrimp. There are of course a bunch of other shrimp out there and I'm sure others would be more than happy to offer up their experiences for you, these are the only ones i have experience with. (And btw, shrimp are nice to have in addition to the reasons stated they--and peppermint shrimp especially--will mate often releasing zooplankton into the water which'll serve as a nice free meal for all your corals and other filter feeders 
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