Here are my totally unscientific thoughts based solely on my own personal and limited experience:
1. Provided you are properly maintaining your parameters (think the lawyers make us say that), at 4 months, you are probably “ok” with the rock nem - no need to rehome JUST because of that. I added one even a bit earlier than that and he is still fat & happy seven months later.
2. I have quite a few peppermints and I have never seen one come anywhere near the rock nem. I’ve frequently caught them irritating coral, especially at feeding time, but they stay pretty clear of the nem.
3. I feed my nem whenever I feed frozen to the rest of the tank. He gobbles up the piece I give him then kinda looks like grandpa after Thanksgiving dinner for a while.
4. Every once in a while he kinda does this weird gyration thing where he puffs himself up and waves in the current. Then just about the time I start thinking something is really wrong and I need to worry, he plops himself back down.
That’s been MY experience with MY rock nem. Totally unscientific and not to be confused with REAL advice from those with actual years of experience and knowledge.
Don’t know if that helped at all. But as a mom, it always makes me feel a bit better when I hear that someone else’s kid is also doing something weird, worrying or annoying and that maybe I don’t need to panic.
