Re: Peppermint shrimp

My wife told me that one of the shrimp keep picking at one of the snails all
day and it was alive and moving until I got home from work.It might have
been in a death spiral prior to the shrimp bothering it.

It makes me wonder if they are true peppermints. I will do a Google search
for the shrimp and try to confirm the type.

I was checking on the snails and I am not sure which type of turbos they
were, either Astrea or funnel turbos?


"Roy" <sonoma1720@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sure does not osund like the typical behavior of a peppermint. Are you
> 00% sure you had a peppermint, as it seems a lot of lfs are pawning
> off a sililar looking species as peppermints, but then even its just
> not the typical behavior of those shrimp either..I would be inclined
> to think perhaps your snail may have died and the shrimp just took
> advantage of a fresh readily available meal, and just doing what
> shrimps normally do.
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:45:13 -0500, "Steven"
> <NOSPAMwallstreet71@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>><>They ate 4 of my Turbos..... I always thought they were peaceful
>>><>shrimp.....they have not eaten any of the other types of snails, has
>>>anyone
>>><>else had this happen? will they eventually go after the other types of
>>>my
>>><>snails or do they just like turbos?
>>><>
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