Did you know that the Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp are popular aquarium inhabitants because they eat the parasites and dead skin off of random fish that pass by?

Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp
Lysmata Amboinensisw

Description: The Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp has bright red stripes along their back with long bright white whiskers . The botttom half of their body is mustard yellow. They have bold black eyes and a fork-shaped mouth.

Habitat: They can be found at depth of 4o feet or more in crevices and holes and often seen in the company of large eels.

Diet:. The Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp are cornivores. They eat dead skin that they have cleaned off of other fish like triggerfish and moray eels.