peppermint shrimp

[315hottuna61]

peppermint shrimp 001 by copperman61, on Flickr Added a couple of Peppermint Shrimp a couple of months ago - first time i"ve seen either one since.

 

[ErinCahir]

I was convinced all mine were goners in my big tank... then one day I found a molt. When I broke down and was selling off all the rock, I found seven. They're ridiculously good at hiding.

 

[Washburn82]

Mine is a PITA he steals my mandarins food and does this weird crazy dance that scares my mandarin away!

 

[jr7168]

yes my does the crazy dance but he starting to slowly come out and see how awesome we are in real world!

 

[Washburn82]

Oh its a universal crazy dance? They're all in on it!? Sneaky little buggers.

 

[jr7168]

yeah i liked the guy i picked up cause he swam upside down like a ruuuuu-tard. but now he being shy.

 

[Salty B]

I had one that whenever I stuck my hand in there, it would climb on and pick at my fingernails. Pretty cool critters.

 

[315hottuna61]

Funny everyone mentions " the dance". I thought the shrimp was swaying with the powerheads. They are " hermits" though.

 

[Sir Alex]

My peppermint shrimp is always sitting there all innocent dancin like "what coral? I didn't eat no coral." :shock:


I haven't seen him for like a week, I hope he's okay...

 

[315hottuna61]

He's fine, just hiding

 

[jr7168]

my dude molted in less than a week i was like come here dude get out from under the ....wait a minute

 

[Trigger Happy]

Anyone here ever bred them?

 

[reeftanker84]

mine always seemed to molt just before the larve were ready so lost all the potential babies

 

[jr7168]

i have not i have never looked into it either

 

[Kelz88]

i had some growing out into a container in my main tank, they were even starting to get big, but then i knocked it over and my clown quickly demolished them.

 

[Trigger Happy]

i had some growing out into a container in my main tank, they were even starting to get big, but then i knocked it over and my clown quickly demolished them.

Hmm, sounds promising. I have two in a pico tank in the kitchen. I have been using them to clean up some live rock before it goes into the DT. Is there anything I can do to encourage babies? I don't even know how to tell if they are males or females. One is about 1.5 inches long and the other about 1 inch? They've each moulted once in about 2 weeks.

 

[Kelz88]

i think i read somewhere that they can be both, when i noticed the babies in the tank, it was just her lol. My boyfriend didnt believe that there was baby shrimp in the tank till he came over and looked.

 

[Trigger Happy]

My peppy pico:
Very hard to get photos of the peppies. I will keep trying.

 

[315hottuna61]

Seriously camera shy lol

 

[stormystormy11]

I found mine with a flashlight at night dancing upside down under ledge of rock...Hope my stupid 6 line wrasse doesn't find him. Wrasse ur time is limited!