Buying a Peppermint shrimp from Petco

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    Shane1

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