Peppermint Shrimp...May need a Shark

[nyy fan]

Have heard they are great cleaners and good for ridding tank of Aptasia (sp)...
Also heard that they are commonly confused with another type of shrimp (sorry, but forgot the name).
Can someone help me make the right ID...would like for this to be one of my first purchases.
Thanks,
Phucker <img src="graemlins//confused.gif" border="0" alt="[confused]" />

 

[adrian]

May also want to mentiod camel shrimp are known to eat polyps. They are also called sexy shrimp in some circles. HTH

 

[bobber]

Peppermint shrimp do rid your tank of aiptasia. It took mine a while to eat it cuz it was geting used to my normal feeding and relied on that food and ignored the aiptasia. I had to stop feeding the entire tank and feed fish independantly, almost starving the shrimp before he FINALLY the one aiptasia in my tank. HTH--Bob

 

[ebeckels]

the only other shrimp that is similar in body shape to the peppermint is the fire shrimp. They, however, do not have similar coloring to the peppermint..fire shrimp have a blood red body with white spots and a long white antennae. They are a cleaning shrimp, not an aiptasia eating shrimp. Just to make sure this is not the other shrimp that you may have been refering to. Although, the camel and peppermint are much more similar looking.