Yuma
Fish Fanatic
OK, quick background. 60 Fowlr....for now. Just completed cycle, adding clean-up crew.
I want/need a couple of shrimp for my tank. Some of the live rock that I purchased came with some Aiptasia on it that I have been treating with Aiptasia X with very good success, but there are still quite a few small/tiny ones around.
My thought was to get a couple of peppermint shrimp with the hopes that I manage to get at least one that takes a liking to eating Aiptasia. I fully understand that there's no guarantee that they would eat it.
Here's my dilemma:
While I'm starting with a fowlr tank, I already have a couple of hitchhiker mushys and a pretty good sized mat of star polyps, and to be honest, I'm just not sure how long the tank with stay fowlr. In other words, sooner or later I'm gonna start adding corals. I would say that I'm probably AT LEAST several months from adding any nems, but I have to take that into consideration as they certainly are a future possibility.
So the question is, should I just continue attacking this stuff with the Aiptasia X and maybe go with a more "reef friendly" shrimp such as a skunk cleaner, or should I go ahead and do the peppermint shrimp?
Thanks for your thoughts/input.
Yuma
I want/need a couple of shrimp for my tank. Some of the live rock that I purchased came with some Aiptasia on it that I have been treating with Aiptasia X with very good success, but there are still quite a few small/tiny ones around.
My thought was to get a couple of peppermint shrimp with the hopes that I manage to get at least one that takes a liking to eating Aiptasia. I fully understand that there's no guarantee that they would eat it.
Here's my dilemma:
While I'm starting with a fowlr tank, I already have a couple of hitchhiker mushys and a pretty good sized mat of star polyps, and to be honest, I'm just not sure how long the tank with stay fowlr. In other words, sooner or later I'm gonna start adding corals. I would say that I'm probably AT LEAST several months from adding any nems, but I have to take that into consideration as they certainly are a future possibility.
So the question is, should I just continue attacking this stuff with the Aiptasia X and maybe go with a more "reef friendly" shrimp such as a skunk cleaner, or should I go ahead and do the peppermint shrimp?
Thanks for your thoughts/input.
Yuma