Call PETA, I just went against our MS

[tuberider]

I have had a pesky Peppermint shrimp that decided that encrusting Monti polyps are Aiptaisia, not cool. This evening after many attempts to remove said animal I decided to use a dose of interceptor to destroy the vermin. The little guy has been with me a while and after many attempts to capture my little shrimp friend, it's time (sad a shrimp is smarter than me, he smells a trap coming a mile away). I could make a list of corals that it has pretty much destroyed in the last few months, but that's just sad.

Goodbye oh little useful friend :-

Anyone have any skeletons in the closet the need to get off their chest?

 

[sfsuphysics]

Honestly Jeremy, I think EVERYONE at one time has done something to kill animals in the name of saving something else (usually more desirable). We talk about how corals are animals, they should be treated.. blah blah blah, but that apparently only applies to those that look nice, brown palythoas? screw it, cover them in kalk, undesirable corals? Lets just toss them on the freebe table at a meeting and leave them regardless if anyone wants them.

Yeah I can honestly say I've done some things to kill a few things in my tank. However as far as complex lifeforms? Asterina starfish are probably the only ones I've pulled out and tossed in the garbage, bad crabs I've just tossed them in the sump (sure they probably died a much more slow death but hey ignorance is bliss man!)

 

[Elite]

I don't think I have kill animals to save anything yet. Not that I don't want to. It's just the bartard too smart ;D ..

 

[Raddogz]

I can thing one too many pests that I've killed - not much regret.

Crab sitting milli colony that started messing with polyps - it got the pointy end of a paring knife

 

[Mr. Ugly]

You can use a light dose of Interceptor to knock him out. Then scoop him up and put him somewhere with less tasty corals

Big hermits, emerald crabs, and shrimp can survive Interceptor that nukes redbugs if the dose isn't too strong.

 

[Roc]

MURDERER..... j/k

 

[tuberider]

[quote author=Mr. Ugly link=topic=4047.msg48302#msg48302 date=1215396756]
You can use a light dose of Interceptor to knock him out. Then scoop him up and put him somewhere with less tasty corals

Big hermits, emerald crabs, and shrimp can survive Interceptor that nukes redbugs if the dose isn't too strong.
[/quote]I've done it in the past to kill RB's (which ages the shrimp, it survived previous treatments over a year ago). I'm killin' everything this time, I have no other choice :-[. For the PETA people, I will abstain from Ankimo for the next two weeks.

 

[Gomer]

When I was able to capture these two, they sat in a spare tank (with 1" of water) for 2 days. Of course it was ~ 60 in the house with winter etc, but they slowed to a crawl before taking a dive into the compost/food scraps trashcan Hey, I'm composting them! That is good, right?

 

[tuberider]

Check the one on the left, and my most recent post, oooohhhh cosmic, I need an enima.

 

[Gomer]

I hear coffee enimas are a massive caffeine rush!

 

[Thales]

Anyone with anymore pest crabs or shrimp that are catchable, please get them to me live or frozen for ceph food.

 

[Mr. Ugly]

No, no... get them to me for tempura rolls that I'll have with the ankimo that Jeremy won't be eating