Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp - Lysmata amboinensis

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Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp

Scientific Name

Lysmata amboinensis

Reef Compatible

Yes

Care Level

Beginner

Disposition

Peaceful

Minimum Tank Size

30 gallons

Mature Size

2.5 inches

Placement in tank

Any

Diet

Carnivore

Range

Indo-Pacific, Sri Lanka

Size Class

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Other Common Names

Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, Indo-Pacific White Banded Cleaner Shrimp

Description

This Cleaner Shrimp will do just that, clean your fish of parasites and other small organisms. Nocturnal by nature, this shrimp prefers to hide under ledges and overhangs. Underfed individuals may nip at small polyp stony corals or zoanthid colonies.

Diet

Will consume any foods that it's tankmates will eat. Prefers marine flesh including clam, scallop, raw table shrimp, mysis shrimp, mussel, silversides and will even eat nori.