I think my peppermint shrimp ate my cleaner shrimp

kyarnkid

kyarnkid

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I had two cleaner shrimp and suddenly one dissapeared. I thought no big deal, he is just molting. Well, about 3 weeks later no sign of him. I saw a peppermint shrimp and the bottom of my tank where my shrimp went last to molt(I think). Well I noticed a crumpled body and I thought it was just a molt sitting next to the peppermint shrimp.
That being said my other shrimp suddenly disspapeared and I noticed some of its body on the filter. Also my peppermint was in the same spot he was in last time, looking suspicous and everything.
What do you guys think?
 
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sandy

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I don't know much about shrimp -- Is your pepperment MUCH larger than the missing shrimp? Is it aggressive? Mine are friendly little buggers that hide behind the rocks unless I feed or turn out the lights. My guess is that the cleaner shrimp died of something else and the pepperment was cleaning up. Don't know though.
 
von_rahvin

von_rahvin

Member
be carefull on how many of the peppermint shrimp you have. i have a few too many and now i am trying to catch them out of my tank. They have munched a clam (maxima) a few flame scallops, a tube anenome (found the back end just chewed right off) and a few mushrooms, they are great in small numbers but be careful when you may have too many of them
 
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