Peppermint Shrimp
These shrimps are small even adults rarely grow more than 2 in length and have an off white body with many crimson red lines that go from head to tail.
Peppermint shrimp. This adaptable species inhabits shallow 2 5 meters of depth subtidal environments of all kinds. The peppermint shrimp lysmata boggessi is native to the florida keys key west and the gulf of mexico. Peppermint shrimp are a brightly colored inexpensive saltwater reef shrimp species that are often recommended to help control aiptasia anemone populations.
It has four moults as a male before changing sexes to become a euhermaphrodite. But they are also a fun interesting easy to care for invertebrate that can add some color and variety to your reef tank. Freshly hatched peppermint shrimp zoea.
However under certain conditions some males never change to hermaphrodites. The peppermint shrimp lysmata wurdemanni is a smaller saltwater invertebrate reaching about 2 inches 5 cm in size as adults. This means that it begins as a male but may later become a hermaphrodite.
Peppermint shrimp are native to the waters off the florida in the gulf of mexico and florida keys. Peppermint shrimp have transparent bodies with red stripes all over. The peppermint shrimp lysmata wurdemanni is a nocturnal omnivorous saltwater invertebrate that lives in the shallow waters of the caribbean sea the gulf of mexico the east atlantic ocean and in the coasts of florida.
Lysmata wurdemanni is a protandric simultaneous hermaphrodite.