Never saw these until the Aussie shipments started coming in around 2008-09. Hard to see but zoom into the left scoly. You can see how they start to encroach and kill tissue after a few months:
Fairly similar to the old pappone recipe I brought back from Italian reefers in 2006: https://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=971190&page=30
The big thing was to use fresh ingredients if possible (just to minimize freeze thaws). I think the capelin roe I added to the recipe later on...
Never had issues here with peppermints and LPS. I have had issues back in the day with camels sold as peppermints however. Kenny has had the right ones every time.
They generally show up as bycatch for crabs in the Caribbean in the winter months.
Kenny has a TON of them that he QTed and are eating prepared foods. Plus a bunch of other fish I don't normally see. Grabbed a tiny Halicoheres chrysus.