nocturnal peppermint?

[gusmanda]

are peppermint shrimps nocturnal? I've only managed to see mine at night. The little guy hasn't, unfortunately, had a taste for aipstasia that I hoped he would, by the way.

[Bambalamb]

Mine goes out at night a lot more than the day. BTW, I have never seen mine touch any aiptasia. I used the Kalk/RO mixture to nuke what I had.

[gusmanda]

guess I'll need to buy another peppermint then. What do they eat if they don't eat aipstasia? detritus?

[Bambalamb]

If you are really just wanting to rid your tank of the aiptasia, read the sticky thread in this forum from Jonathan Bertoni titled "Methods of Aiptasia Control. That will give you some other options since the first PS didn't eat it.

HTH

[jus10kase]

I just added 2 peppermints yesterday, and the 2 things I figured may be aptasia are gone after last night.

[Sk8r]

They'll eat baby aiptasia quite handily...and yes, they are nocturnal. They will only eat the tentacles off the adults---occasionally a whole one, but rarely. They'll eat pellet food, and will occasionally snatch a coral polyp when they're desperate, but don't make a pest of themselves in that way. They will, however, eat yellow star polyps: they're relatives of the aiptasia and the shrimp can't tell the smells apart.