Joe's Juice

[cbianco]

If nothing else, find em and stab them repeatly with an ice pick or something...

So mafiaso! :lol Remind me not to mess with you.

I think that 4 or 5 peppermints in my small tank is a recipe for disaster. From my experience they like to pick at corals. I was thinking maybe 2 peppermints.

Christopher

[JimD]

Pepps are usualy hit or miss. What Ive done in the past is to train them by setting up a small temporary tank with a powerhead in it, place an infested rock in it with the Pepps, dont feed the tank at all and wait till theyre eating the Aiptasia, usually doesnt take long, then put the rock and the shrimp back in the main tank.

[cbianco]

Jim

I originally heard that people should put the CBB with a rock in a quarrintine tank in order to get them eating anemones. I thought about doing that with the peppermints too.

I trully understand when you say the "peppermints are hit or miss," from personal experience. I had a pair of peppermints that were saints and practically fetch the morning newspaper. A second batch of peppermints took out one of my hammers before moving onto a colony of zoas.

Christopher

[JimD]

Just be sure youre getting "true" Peppermint shrimp, >Lysmata Wurdemanni< and youll have a much higher success rate. Ive seen them mis-labeled at some lfs's. Avoid the ones being caught at the gulf. Google image search resulted in some really nice pics of the Wurdemanni.

[cbianco]

Jim

I have heard that the two peppermints look alike. What is the scientific on the other type of "peppermint?"

Christopher

[cbianco]

Jim

I assume that this is the "true/real" peppermint
( http://fins.actwin.com/pics/Lysmata_wurdemanni3.jpg ).

How do you know if they have been caught at the gulf? Is there a trick to figuring this out (besides asking)?

Christopher