Buying a Peppermint shrimp from Petco

[Shane1]

I've decided to get a Peppermint shrimp to battle my growing Aiptasia problem. My local Petco has them in stock. I'm just wondering what i should look out for if anything?
TIA

 

[Salty B]

Make sure they are selling you a peppermint and not a camel shrimp. It happened to me when I started and found out the hard way that camels tear through soft corals pretty quick.

 

[Salty B]

Also I've read that there is 2 species of pep shrimp and only 1 eats aiptasia. I forget the exact name but a quick google search will find it for you.

 

[little_fish]

Yea, you have to make sure its the correct subspecies of peps. I think its the pacific ones, but im not 100% sure on that. Also they will only eat the smaller ones, so you should deal with any larger ones with manually, my favorite method is aiptasia X

 

[chuck78]

+1 little_fish.....just turn of your powerheads/pump & use "Aiptasia X"!!!