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Peppermint Shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni
Care Level: Easy Peppermint Shrimp are opaque to creamy-clear in colour, with red or maroon coloured stripes running along the length of the body. Often misidentified or misrepresented and sold as the Camelback Shrimp, this two species are not the same and should not be confused with each other. It will grow to a length of about 2 inches, and is most commonly collected in the Caribbean. Peppermint Shrimp are nocturnal and very shy during the day, protecting themselves from their own predators by staying out of sight most of the time. However, at night when the big boys are napping, this shrimp forages the system looking for a meal. The peppermint shrimp is generally peaceful with other tank inhabitants, but may not get along well with Coral Banded Shrimp of the same sex, and may pick on other shrimp species as well. To help with proper moulting of this shrimp, supplemental iodine should be added to the system. Like with all invertebrates, this shrimp is sensitive to copper sulphate and high nitrate levels.
The Peppermint Shrimp is a carnivore, scavenging the bottom of the aquarium, and sifting sand for food. In captivity it will accept a varied diet of prepared fresh and frozen foods suitable for carnivores, vitamin enriched flakes, freeze dried krill, or live adult brine shrimp or nauplii. Best fed at least once per day. In addition to what it obtains from scavenging, its diet should consist of most types of prepared foods, and possible pieces of fresh fish. This shrimp is known for eating aiptasia anemones. It eat them like kids eat sweets. Place 3 or 4 to a tank to really clean up infestations. Once all the anemones are gone though, you must provide food for them. Don't allow the aiptastia to grow larger than an inch or so, because the shrimp won't go after really large ones. Add the shrimp early on in the beginnings of the reef, after cycling of course! This will help to keep the anemones from over running the tank in the first place.
The Peppermint Shrimp species has been successfully bred by commercial fish farms, but it will rarely breed in the average home aquarium. To summarise: The perfect way of controlling Aiptastia (below left) in the invert aquaria. These fascinating animals add variety and interest to the aquaria.
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