Snowflake Eel and peppermint shrimp

[natclanwy]

Has anyone had any luck keeping peppermint shrimp with a snowflake eel?
I have a bad aptasia outbreak and would like to get something that would keep the aptasia in check but I have a snowflake eel and I know they prey on shrimp.

 

[fishntx]

as lon as the shrimp is large enough that the eel cant swallow it you may be fine but that is just a chance your going to take. i would try to find another option

 

[natclanwy]

Thanks, that was kind of what I thought I may try them if I can find them cheap enough that I wouldn't be to put out if the eel made a meal out of it but I think my LFS wants $20 for one and I am not willing to sacrifice that much. I am looking into getting a bergia nudibranch not sure if I spelled that right. Has anyone had any experience keeping them? and how quickly will they eat the aptasia? I have read that they only eat aptasia and if they run out they will starve and die. I would jump on it if I knew someone to trade the nudi to after it consumed all of the aptasia but I don't know anyone else in my area with a saltwater tank, and I don't know if my lfs would be a good place to take a specialized creature like that, I need to talk to the LFS some more and would like to hear from anyone who has had experience with them.

 

[rara12]

Thats alot for one of those shrimp. I would get a few of them and they should be fine for a few days...We have a brazilian dragon eel and to kill of aptasia we dropped 2 large ones in and they lived for a week, (and killed off the asptasia)

 

[millerman]

mine lased about 2-3 months.....then lunch. i guess since the eel started getting bigger he became hungrier

 

[saltfan]

Get a 6-Line Wrasse

 

[sw65galma]

Pepermint + SFE =