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Tetley
10-23-2006, 12:54 PM
Hi,

Do you have any "(true)pepermints" in at the moment.

If so, could do with a couple - let me know please. (Can collect)

Thanks

Ian
Macca
10-23-2006, 01:16 PM
Will get David to drop off two tonight

James
Tetley
10-23-2006, 01:57 PM
Cheers,

1st class service.

After 18.30 please.

Thanks

Ian
Kev
10-23-2006, 02:25 PM
Daft question time:D :

Is there a benefit to having a "true" peppermint?

Kev
callum_parsons
10-23-2006, 02:31 PM
sometimes they will eat glass anemones if they are hungry
i need some i have spotted to glass anemones on my live rock so there will be more some where
Tetley
10-23-2006, 02:34 PM
Daft question time:D :

Is there a benefit to having a "true" peppermint?

Kev

Hi Kev,

Yes, they are supposed to prey on glass nems - time will tell.

ATB

Ian
Kev
10-23-2006, 02:35 PM
Thanks guys.

Kev
Tangman
10-23-2006, 05:02 PM
Hi In my small tank that i have just set up i noticed a couple of small aiptasia's in there before i went into hospital, and when i came out they have gone. The only shrimps in there are a pair of hump backed camel shrimps, so do you think they have eaten the aiptasia. Chris aka Course-its-reefsafe told me they did and i put some in my large tank and a couple in the small tank, but they have not done there job in my large tank. :) Eric
Dons1903
10-24-2006, 12:07 PM
Kev,

The problem is that there are 2 shrimps that are almost identical in appearance and are hence often sold as Peppermint Shrimps.

The Lysmata Wurdemanni is the true Peppermint and is the aiptasia muncher while the Rhynchocienetes Uritai is not.

I had a MAJOR aiptasia problem (millions of the things) a few months back and couldn't contain them by injecting them as although I could get the big ones the little ones would disappear into the holes in my rock! Bought 2 Peppermints from my LFS and they have slowly devoured them so I only have a couple of biggies left now! Amazing beasts :)
Macca
10-24-2006, 01:55 PM
To be honest they are very easy to tell apart. One has vivid lines and googly eyes the other has not. The ones we sell are the true peppermints. The one to watch out for a the carlifornica which although looks like a very large peppermint and it indeed is a peppermint but does not have the same reef friendship as Lysmata wurdemanni.

James