Cleaner Shrimp And Carpet Anemone

My cleaner shrimp is bothering my anemone sometimes it makes the anemone really upset.

Cleaner shrimp and carpet anemone.

Matthew stephenson 223 624 views. The relationship between cleaner shrimp and their clients is generally considered a mutualism. Very fine blue carpet anemone duration. The haddon s carpet anemone lives singly in the shallow waters of the indo pacific and red sea.

In this case the shrimp gets a meal and the. This colorful anemone is also referred to as haddon s anemone saddle anemone saddle carpet anemone or saddleback anemone. The cleaner shrimp wants some action too but the nem won t allow him to get close to it. Found outside of the reef it resides in soft muddy or sandy substrate and can attain a size of up to 3 feet in diameter.

On one occasion i had a large clark s anemonefish amphiprion clarkii grab a marbled shrimp in its mouth and stuff it into its host carpet anemone. The sexy shrimp is way smaller. They also exhibit a symbiotic relationship with carpet anemones presumably for protection from predators. Tidal gardens 49 244 views.

The first ones can grow up to 5 cm 2 inches in length. They are often part of big cleaning stations that may involve neon gobies wrasses and other cleaner shrimp such as banded coral shrimp and scarlet cleaner shrimp. Another compatible tankmates are the periclemenes anemone shrimp and thor amboinensis the sexy shrimp. These are a small shrimp species.

Some of the larger corallimorpharians a close relative of the sea anemones might also prey on shrimps.