{"id":418,"date":"2013-12-19T19:41:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=418"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:07:17","slug":"peppermint-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2013\/12\/19\/peppermint-shrimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Peppermint Shrimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peppermint Shrimps are often kept in reef tanks to eat the pest <a href=\"\/2014\/01\/10\/aiptasia\/\" title=\"Aiptasia\">Aiptasia<\/a> anemones.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_419\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PeppermintShrimp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-419\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PeppermintShrimp.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Peppermint Shrimps.\" width=\"458\" height=\"258\" class=\"size-full wp-image-419\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PeppermintShrimp.jpg 458w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PeppermintShrimp-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peppermint Shrimps.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Mine do not seem to have a taste for it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLklHTxTJNc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They are often kept in large groups in the hope that they will group spawn.<br \/>\nSometimes the larvae are just eaten by other tank inhabitants, but some people do manage to rear them in captivity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reefkeeping.com\/issues\/2002-10\/nftt\/\" title=\"Captive Rearing of Peppermint Shrimp\" target=\"_blank\">Captive Rearing of Peppermint Shrimp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquariumspeed.com\/page\/articles.html\/_\/information\/invertebrates\/saltwater-invertebrates\/peppermint-shrimp-care-and-diet-r72\" title=\"Peppermint Shrimp Care And Diet\" target=\"_blank\">Peppermint Shrimp Care And Diet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.101-saltwater-aquarium.com\/others-care-information\/peppermint-shrimp.php\" title=\"Peppermint Shrimp Care, Guide and Information\" target=\"_blank\">Peppermint Shrimp Care, Guide and Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some evidence that they do eat Aiptasia:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPd5fHcFpeM\" title=\"Peppermint Shrimp Eating Aiptasia\" target=\"_blank\">Peppermint Shrimp Eating Aiptasia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peppermint Shrimps are often kept in reef tanks to eat the pest Aiptasia anemones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,12,26,18,31,43,29,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}