cleaner shrimp and peppermint shrimp in same tank

[joesfiddy]

i have a 75 gallon tank with 3 cleaners in it and now i noticed a few aiptasias and was thinking of adding 3 peppermint shrimp to get rid of the aiptasias. will they get along?

[plummike]

Mine do

[yellowRubi]

same here..

[reefmaster30]

i have 10 of each no problems

[horwitzs]

Go for it

[Tylt33]

My two skunk cleaners ate two peppermints who were much smaller than them... same with a friend who works at the LFS, he was able to witness his skunks tearing the antenna of his peppermints.

[stingythingy45]

I have 1 peppermint,1 skunk cleaner and 1 very large Coral banded in a 55 gallon.

[Bambalam]

As to your reason for adding the PS, there's no guarantee they will eat the aiptasia. IME, they are opportunistic feeders that will only eat aiptasia when there's no other food source.

[BeesGoneWild]

Mine got along together very well.

[Young Frankenstein]

Squeze or grind some aiptazias with your finger, the pepermints will get the smell and after will start eating them :D

[RyanMKintz]

I agree, plus I have a blood red in the mix

[jamest0o0]

I have a cleaner, peppermint, and blood shrimp together.... the blood shrimp is territorial, but I can't imagine a cleaner ever killing a peppermint = / ..... also I just stuck my peppermint in my tank and he ate all the aiptasia in a day... GL!

[tmz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12417553#post12417553 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bambalam
As to your reason for adding the PS, there's no guarantee they will eat the aiptasia. IME, they are opportunistic feeders that will only eat aiptasia when there's no other food source. :) I have used Lysnmata wurdemanni (peppermint shrimp) in a number of well fed tanks and they have always consumed the aiptasia even some of the large ones. When combined with kalk paste ,you can achieve long lasting aiptasie control IME.