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Lysmata debelius
A species of cleaner shrimp indigenous to the Indo-Pacific. It is popular in the aquarium trade, where it is known as the fire shrimp, blood shrimp or scarlet cleaner shrimp. Photographed with permission at: Aquatic Critter, 5009 Nolensville Road, Nashville, TN 37211
Spotted on Jul 29, 2011
Submitted on Jun 9, 2012
4 Comments
adorable !! Excellente!!
Fascinating!
They come from the Indo-Pacific and while they will pick parasites off fish that present themselves, they are really spend most of their time as omnivorous scavengers. I don't know that they are associated with any 1 type of fish in particular.
So colorful! Do you know which species they "clean"?