Fire Shrimp
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Scientific Name: Lysmata debelius Price: Upon Request Origin: Indo-Pacific Family: Hippolytidae NOT AVAILABLE NOW |
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Other Names: Blood Red Fire Shrimp, Blood shrimp, Scarlet cleaner shrimp |
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Technical Info
Temperature: 22 - 26 ℃
pH: 8.1 - 8.4
GH: 8 - 12
SG: 1.20 - 1.025
Max size: 5 cm
Min Tank size: 110 Ltr
Position in Aqua: Bottom swimmer
Description
It has a blood-red body with white spots and long white antennae. Depending on which region of the Indo-Pacific from which it originates, it may have the white dots just on its carapace, or covering its entire body.
Food
The diet of the Fire Shrimp should include freeze-dried, live or frozen foods, and flaked foods.
Breeding
Fire Shrimp regularly fill with eggs in the home aquarium, but raising the larvae is extremely challenging - mainly due to predation by tankmates, strong currents sucking them into the filtration system, and difficulty in feeding them with appropriately sized foodstuffs such as phytoplankton.
Compatible with
Don't keep them with larger fish that may eat them. Being cleaners, most fish somehow know not to eat them, but if a larger fish is hungry you don't know what they'll do.
Note
Reef with caution.