{"id":1104,"date":"2014-08-06T00:39:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T04:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2014-08-06T00:39:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T04:39:24","slug":"scarlet-skunk-cleaner-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/08\/06\/scarlet-skunk-cleaner-shrimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp"},"content":{"rendered":"

The skunk cleaner shrimps are probably one of the best known types of shrimp that one can keep in a reef aquarium.
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Scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis<\/em>) in a reef tank.<\/p><\/div>\n

One skunk cleaner shrimp is even featured in the cartoon Finding Nemo<\/a> as Jacques. Cleaner shrimps are really cleaners — they eat parasites off other animals (mainly fish) in the sea. This kind of relationship between a cleaner and its client is known as cleaning symbiosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Skunk<\/a>

Skunk cleaner shrimps like company.<\/p><\/div>\n

Skunk cleaner shrimps are quite often kept in home reef aquariums as they are beautiful to look at and they do not usually destroy other desirable reef inhabitants.<\/p>\n

Further Readings:<\/h4>\n
\nLysmata amboinensis — Skunk Cleaner Shrimp<\/a> on Encyclopedia of Life<\/a>.
\nScarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp Care And Diet<\/a> on aquariumspeed.com.
\nLysmata amboinensis<\/em><\/a> on Wikipedia.
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