Sherri, that peppermint messes with your corals when you are not around. There are some things you will never have in your reef if you have peppermints. They are very shy and eat lots of reef life besides aiptasia, including large polyp stoneys and unguarded anemones. If you lost a BTA and have a peppermint, they are not compatable.

There are pros and cons to most methods, re: copperbands, peppermints, joes juice and berghia nudibranches. Berghia cause no trouble, eat nothing else and they don't kill shrimp. And copperbands - I've only seen them attack something that is dead or dying from some trauma it had otherwise, except for the things they are known to eat inlcuding astrea turbo snails and feather dusters.

Misti, thanks for pointing that out. Didn't know Joes Juice would kill cleaner shrimp. Maybe coral crabs too then?