Camel shrimp are bad. Cleaner shrimp are good. So are peppermint shrimp.
Camel shrimp will eat corals and polyps. Also, peppermint shrimp will eat
polyps, but only if you have too many of them in a tank. You can usually add
2-3 of them okay, but they seem to go for polyps when you add 4-5 or more.
The advantage of peppermints is they eat aptasia anemones. The advantage to
cleaners is they will help keep your fish free of parasites. The
disadvantage to both is they will steal food from your LPS corals. A nice
mix would be a couple of cleaners and a couple of peppermints.
IMO
Shane C.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 9:41 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Shrimp
>
> I have been noticing that "camel shrimp" have been mentioned in a lot of
> emails. Why do people have them? What do they do? Are they more
> advantageous than cleaner shrimp? Can a camel and a cleaner live together?
> Sorry for all the questions, but I am looking into the purchase of one or
> more shrimp.
> Thanks,
> Tracy
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