Peppermint shrimp and corals?

In my experence I have never seen a peperment shrimp eat a coral. Do the shrimp come out and eat when you feed your fish mine always do. Mybe yours are hungry.

 

On my 55g tank back in California I had one peppermint shrimp that was notorious with picking at corals, namely the softies. He did do damage, slowly, but was too tough for me to pull it out without tearing the whole tank apart. Feeding the tank a little more frequently helped resolved the issue, for the most part.

 

I have seen fire shrimp eat zoos but not peppermint they willl help keep the peskiy tube anemones at bay they seem to love them.

 

My peppermint shrimps eat zoas, acans, and clams when they are hungry...

 

take a Veggie clip or something of the sort and put a piece of meat on it like shrimp or crab. Then shove your veggie clip all the way down towards the bottom and in no time the peppermint shrimp should find it. That way you can get out piece of food after a few hours. I have 4 in my tank and that's how I feed them.

 

Yes feeding more seems to help, I used to have a peppermint shrimp that would eat my mushrooms it almost destroyed an entire colony before I got it under control.

 

Wow I never knew those little suckers would do that. Not so reef safe then are they.