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Peppermint Shrimp eating my Frogspawn

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The first time I dropped in my peppermint shrimp, he went straight to my frogspawn and started picking at it. I moved the frogspawn to the other side of tank, and the shrimp doesn't go over there. I then moved the frogspawn to front center of tank, and then I think he has been sneaking up and taking bites at a time probably at night.

I heard that maybe the peppermint is killing off dead parts of frogspawn (but it looked totally healthy)?

Peppermint did eat my aptasia. Should I throw him into the fuge? Or maybe just move the frogspawn back to other side, but its pretty close to my anenome rock. Any ideas or suggestions? I feed a lot like 2-3 a day of pellet food, so there is enough for him on the sandbed.

Here is the results so far =(
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Are you sure he's actually eating it and removing good tissue? It could be dead tissue or something else. I've never had any peps touch my frogspawn or hammers, which have always been healthy.
 
Yea, that's what I'm wondering if it is dead tissue. I guess it might be because he hasn't been picking at the other head. But before he ate that much, the damaged head was pretty fluffy and lively still. No idea, just wanted to see if this has happened to anyone else. Maybe it was infected with some kind of bugs or aptasia? :~
 
Keep it near the anemone for a few weeks and see if that helps :D
 
GreshamH said:
Keep it near the anemone for a few weeks and see if that helps :D
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I watched my run-away anemone bump into torch today and anemone bounced off pretty fast. It then settled next to him and was trying to open up fully and hit torch again and again and shrivel.

I have one with some green stems, white tips kind.
 
I miss read his post :( I thought he said it was OK near his anemone rock. Looking his post over again I see I blew that one :lol:
 
I have had problems with peppermint shrimps nipping things, too. I disciplined him by whenever he started nipping I would "push" him away with my net. Eventually it gave up and it now lives with my yellow spotted watchman goby.
 
My first two Euphyllia corals were eaten by my first two peppermint shrimp. Possibly the corals were dieing, but they were definitely dead after the peppermints got to them. Soon after, the peppermints "disappeared" because I forgot to feed my clownfish... ;)
 
Well, that one head that was being "eaten" is now totally gone, and a white crust is formed (will it grow back?). The other "healthy" head is full, and untouched. So I guess everything is fine now. And now I have it near the anenome rock anyways. Looks nice there hehe
 
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