Peppermint shrimps missing?

[strat]

Does peppermint shrimps like to hide in caves?

I cannot find my peppermint shrimps which I bought from PR...

Don't tell me it's gone...less than 2 days only...

[weileong]

I found my 2 peppermint in my sump. No chance to catch them out so leave them there

[reef2]

mine too. i think its makan by other invert like crabs/cleaner shrimp ? coz i seen the cleaner attack them.

[strat]

Managed to see it last night!...but it's pinching my fox coral....

[Venezia]

sorry to sidetrack but the peppermint shrimp from PR looks quite different from the one @ ML . can anyone explain this? it looks more like the fresh water ghost shrimp

[odi]

sorry to sidetrack but the peppermint shrimp from PR looks quite different from the one @ ML . can anyone explain this? it looks more like the fresh water ghost shrimp

ML also has peppermint? BTW, anyone bought peppermints from PR and actually saw them eating your aiptasias? Mine went missing too.

[Achilles Tang]

sorry to sidetrack but the peppermint shrimp from PR looks quite different from the one @ ML . can anyone explain this? it looks more like the fresh water ghost shrimp

Do they look pale? Like this?

Probably Lysmata rathbunae, not real Peppermint Shrimps but they do apparently do eat Aiptasia too.

[Achilles Tang]

Link to article but its in German.

[Achilles Tang]

Another link to Rathbunae.

[Achilles Tang]

Another link to info on them.

[Achilles Tang]

Another lookalike shrimp Lysmata seticaudata

[flubberina13]

Sigh...my true peppermint also gone missing after shredding one aiptasia...two more to go...

Likelyhood is that it gone AWOL liao...

Didn't know one aiptasia would be the cost of one shrimp...

[lightningstrike]

i bought 2 from PR, 1 oredi MIA.

[weileong]

I was reading the book Crustacea Guide of the world and the peppermint from LCK110 seems more identail to Lysmata sp than Lysmata Californica who is labelled as peppermint shrimp.

So which is actually the real peppermint ???

sign.... but keeps going into my sump

[strat]

Hmmm mine started to moulted the 2nd day in my tank.

Mine looks more like this

[Venezia]

Do they look pale? Like this?

Probably Lysmata rathbunae, not real Peppermint Shrimps but they do apparently do eat Aiptasia too.

yes it looks just like tat with geens eggs at the abdomen area. lucky nv buy..

[Chris]

I bought 1 from LCK and 2 from PR. All look same. Put all three into sump which is infested with aiptisia and viola.....after 1 week, not a single siptisia in sight. Next step will be to transfer them to the main tank to clear a few more. But a bit scared my dotty will makan them.

Is it possible to breed them in the sump?