Peppermint Shrimp and Skunk Cleaner

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Due to a recent outbreak with aitapsia I'm considering getting 2 peppermint shrimp (as adding things is often a pain). I already have 2 skunk cleaners and I'm curious if they can co-exist. They are in a 90 gallon tank, with probably close 100lbs of live rock, so there is a good amount of hiding spaces for them.

Think it could happen, or am I asking for trouble? I love my cleaner shrimp, they are my favorite part of my tank now that my tang died, so I don't want anything to happen to them.
 
I've read it is OK but I have no experience with it. I hate to jinx myself but I haven't yet had to deal with aiptasia. If I do get an outbreak of it I might try to raise the nudibranches that eat the stuff Berghia Verrucicornis.
 
2 peppermints may not be enough for a 90 gallon tank with aiptasia! You might try a Copperband Butterfly.
 
Well there isn't that much yet. They are just on the trumpet coral rock, and I think 1 by the mushrooms (probably only 10 total, still very small). The only reason I've avoided a butterfly is I have corals.
 
Since you only have them on the one rock have you tried to remove that from the tank and treat it with hot water or limewater? Would be nice to be able to catch it before it spreads and you might not need livestock to deal with it.
 
Well it's not even a rock, it's on the trumpet corals hard bottom skeleton part, I just don't want to hurt that as it costs a bit of money. I'm not sure if the other rock (with mushrooms/polyps on it) has one single aitapsia or a piece of pulsating xenia, as I attempted to remove the xenia and some might have fluttered off.

So can I treat the trumpet coral with something?
 
I have a Skunk and a Peppermint and they have done fine together. You will normally NEVER see the Peppemint as they are extremely shy, normally. Mine hides all day, I only know he is still around cause he molted. I will rarely see the Peppermint at night, but when I do he hangs out where my Skunk hangs out all day. My Skunk NEVER leaves my powerhead during the day, but he roams all night, and my Peppermint goes up to the powerhead sometimes late at night.

I have 1 Peppermint in a Tall 70g tank. I got a few Apitasia from buying some Calupra and I have not noticed it, my red hermit crabs and peppermint keep it in check.
 
Yea I have blue and red hermits, and one scarlet reef, who has been hanging out on the coral recently for some odd reason. I'm not sure what to do about it right now, but its ugly and bugging me.
 
I have two Aiptaisa in my tank now, one I can get to, the other is more difficult. I have read that using a syringe or small turkey baster with boiling water and injecting them is very effective. You might want to consider that.

Be careful around corals though! Try to use a syringe or something with a small hole so that you do not hit any near by corals.

I am going to try it this weekend.
 
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