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Lysmata amboinensis
$44.00
A red, white and yellow striped shrimp that runs a cleaning station for your fish.
In stock and eating
From our species guide
In plain words: The Skunk Cleaner Shrimp is a small shrimp with a stripe down its back, just like a skunk. Its body is yellow-orange, with two red stripes and one thin white stripe on top, and it has long white feelers.
Skunk cleaner shrimp set up shop in a cave and pick dead skin and parasites off fish that line up for service, and they soon learn to clean a still hand too. This is a medium-sized shrimp. It is peaceful and reef safe, and any two adults can pair up and carry eggs. Keep it away from hawkfish, lionfish and triggers, never use copper in its tank, and drip-acclimate it slowly.
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