Did they ate my peppermints?

[flooddc]

I have 2 pep shrimps (almost 2 years young, about 1 and a half inches in length). Recently, I got a coral banded shrimp from Luke (Craby) and also added a large carpet anemone. Well, the past 3 days, I have not seen my peps, disappeared totally. Since I have them, they always come out to feed. Did the coral banded or anemone swiped them? I read that coral banded do kill small inverts, but these are big peppermints. Any possibility that the anemone swallow them whole?

 

Hopefully, they molted and hide away in the rock some where. keep my finger crossed!

[smallreef]

probably molted or just hiding from the coral banded.....

[Out Hiking]

A couple years ago, when we had a sebae anemone, we added several peppermints.

Bear in mind, we've had skunk cleaners that have done fine with any type of anemone we've tried, maxi mini carpets,

sebae and rose bubble tip; however, when we added peppermints, they seemed magnetized to the sebae.

 

For full day, we tried to chase those shrimps away from the sebae, and they would just migrate back as if

they were in a trance and magnetized to the sebae. Maybe they thought it looked like a jumbo aptaisia....

We even managed to pull one of the stupid little guys out, but it went hypnotically right back in.

Apparently the peppermints must have thought sebae looked like a monster tenderloin dinner and

couldn't resist the seeming buffet.

 

Alas, the sebae made very quick desserts out of every last one of those would be diners.

 

 

 

[Out Hiking]

Hopefully your peppermints were smarter than ours and are just hiding out from your new shrimp.

[flooddc]

Hmm! I notice that the peppermints was quite curious of the carpet anemone during the first few days. Still no where in site.

[smallreef]

Oh and i didnt notice it was a carpet anemone..hhrrmm if it is a large one that could easily be where they went...my shrimp walk across my maxi minis but fast enough to not be 'got'packed but with a larger one they could easily been trapped...(had a hermit not make it across my large orange one this morning)