What are cleaner shrimp?

Shrimp cleaner is shrimp that approach fish and clean parasites, dead skin and damaged scales. Shrimp benefits from this because items cleaned from fish are their main source of food. Fish benefit from removal of irritating objects and stopping potential infections. Several types of shrimp are involved in cleaning behavior, but the most famous is lysmata amboinensis, Pacific cleaning shrimp, and this is a species usually referred to as "cleaner shrimp". Shrimp cleaners and white-band shrimp are other names for the same species.

The tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region and the Red Sea are a natural habitat of cleaner shrimp. With the exception of the larval stage they live exclusively on the cliffs. They reach a maximum length of 2 to 2.3 inches long (5 to 6 cm) and are very colorful. The white stripe runs along the length of the back, bounded by two red stripes and have two white spots on both sides. Their lively deer Dy plus red tail and four long white antenna facilitate fish that chuts to find them.

fish and cleaner shrimp interact at cleaning stations, places on a cliff where you can usually find shrimp, so fish know that they can find cleaning services. Although objects cleaned from fish are the main source of food for shrimp, they also attach to the cliff for other food. Shrimps are very social with their own species and with others and are not afraid of fish they clean. They even enter the mouth of fish and gills to clean the interior parasites.

Cleaner Shrimp Molt about every four to six weeks. Given that the conditions in their native environment are very stable, without seasonal changes in light or temperature are created throughout the year. With each friction, a woman puts 200 to 500 eggs that adults carry on her shells until they hatch five to seven days of later. Parents then release small larvae into ocean streams, where they are carried within the plankton of the ocean. In five to six monthsAna adults and find the cliff they live on.

Shrimp live naturally in pairs or groups and found up to 100. They are Protondrous Hermaphrodite, which means that they begin with adult life as men and later become females. Clean shrimp is easy to maintain in sea aquariums and cleanse fish in captivity, as well as in the wild.