Blood Red Shrimp
The blood red fire shrimp prefers a habitat providing it with a cave or overhang where the lighting is not too intense.
Blood red shrimp. The blood red fire shrimp boasts striking blood red coloration with brilliant white spots and long white antennae. It has a blood red body with white spots and long white antennae. It is generally peaceful with most other organisms in the reef system unless they impinge on its territory.
It will also scavenge for meaty bits along the substrate bottom. No other shrimps though so i don t know about predatory nature but they certainly aren t shy or hiding in the rocks. The species eats waterfleas and.
The blood red fire shrimp boasts striking blood red coloration with brilliant white spots and long white antennae. The shrimp was likely introduced and spread through the great lakes by ballast water from ocean going ships. As a cleaner shrimp it will set up cleaning stations and remove dead tissue and parasites from fish that present themselves.
They re now documented in all the great lakes. The blood red fire shrimp is one of the most popular shrimp in the aquarium hobby. 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 the blood red fire shrimp may have the white dots just on its carapace or covering its entire body. Bloody red shrimp is an invasive crustacean native to freshwater areas of the black azov and caspian seas in eastern europe and western asia. Bloody red shrimp were first found in lakes ontario and michigan in 2006 according to the fish and wildlife service.
The blood red fire shrimp prefers a habitat providing it with a cave or overhang where the lighting is not too intense. My two blood red fire shrimp are always out together. 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.
The red fire shrimp lysmata debelius is also known as the scarlet cleaner shrimp and the blood red fire shrimp. The blood red fire shrimp lysmata debelius also known as blood shrimp fire shrimp or scarlet cleaner shrimp is one of the most popular ornamental shrimp in the marine aquarium hobby. The blood red fire shrimp also known as blood shrimp fire shrimp or scarlet cleaner shrimp is one of the most popular shrimp in the aquarium hobby.
While it will tolerate its mate others of its own kind will be chased away or harassed. You can buy a fire shrimp for around 20 to 30 locally and online.
