Do peppermint shrimp eat coral? I have one that has seemingly took out a new acan. I've had the shrimp for several months and I've never seen it touch a coral other than to pick food off of them. Thanks in advance. 
Peppermint shrimp
- Thread starter Davek
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you sure it wasn't a camelback shrimp? They look very similar.
I got from reefcleaners.org as a peppermint shrimp.
how was the health of the coral before you saw it eating it? typically they don't touch live coral, but like anything in the reef, it can be possible.
I only has said coral for 2 days. I'm not sure. It looked okay when I bought it.
They 100% will start eating LPS if there’s no aiptasia around for them to eat. I lost my acan, NY Knicks torch that was splitting into 4 heads, a hammer with 3 heads, and an octospawn before I realized my peppermint shrimp were going to town.
Little turds.
Ditto. Mine also went a little rogue after wiping out the aptasia. One morning I found the guts of a godspawn mushroom picked apart and the next day little pieces of an orange hammer.
They now live in the refugium and I feed them separately
They now live in the refugium and I feed them separately
I can sump mine as well if I can catch it.
Damn, I must have been lucky. I had a few once in my previous tank and not even sure what they did. Then one day I never saw them again.
