Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp

Taxonomy: Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp belongs to the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda, Family Hippolytidae, Genus Thor and Species amboinensis.

Scientific names: The scientific name of Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp is Thor amboinensis.

Other common names: Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp is also commonly known as High Tailed Shrimp, Dancing Anemone Shrimp, Hump Backed Shrimp, Pikmin Shrimp and Squat Anemone Shrimp.

Origin or natural range: Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp originates in the Indo-Western Pacific region including Indonesia.

Size: Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp may grow up to a maximum size of 1.50 inches. The female shrimp is double in size to her male counterpart.

Color: Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp occurs in brown, gray and white colors.

Compatibility: Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp is non-aggressive towards the other marine aquarium members.

Habit & Habitat:

• Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp has a habit of moving its abdomen back and forth and therefore the name Sexy Shrimp.
• Naturally, Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp lives in the tentacles of its host anemone on coral reefs.
• Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp molts per three to four weeks.

Morphology:

• The body of Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp is dark brown in color with big white spots on it.
• The eyes of Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp are white in color.

Breeding:

• Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp reproduces sexually.
• The female Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp carries eggs in its abdomen.

Growth enabling environment in your marine aquarium:

• Temperature of water: Seventy-two to seventy-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
• Specific gravity of water: 1.023 to 1.025.
• pH of water: 8.10 to 8.40.
• Habit & habitat:
• To host Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp, you should have an already established reef type marine aquarium with a minimum water capacity of around ten gallons.
• Keep three Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp in your reef tank. If the aquarium size is quite small then, keep one shrimp in it.
• In a marine aquarium, Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp generally lives on corals or anemones, especially Caribbean carpet Anemone. However, in host anemone, Clownfish may attack Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp.
• Slowly acclimate Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp to your marine aquarium environment.
• Feeding & Nutrition: Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp is Carnivorous in feeding habit and eats frozen meaty bits of brine shrimp, meaty shrimp and silverside, phytoplankton, worms, detritus and vegetable flakes. Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp also feeds upon the mucus secreted by its host anemones and corals.

Care:

• Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp is easy to maintain owing to its non-poisonous nature.
• Fluctuations in its marine environment conditions may give Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp pH shock or specific gravity shock.
• Maintain ample Iodine quantity in your tank to smoothen up the molting process of Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp.
• Copper and Nitrates in your marine aquarium may prove lethal for Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp.
• If Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp lives in anemones then, clownfish may attack the shrimp. To avoid this situation, better replace anemones with corals and Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp will live on corals.
• Do not keep large fish and Sexy Shrimp - Sexy Anemone Shrimp in the same marine aquarium as the fish may eat the shrimp.

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