Cleaner Shrimp
Lysmata amboinensis
A hardy, reef-safe shrimp that sets up a cleaning station and picks parasites and dead tissue from fish.
Ideal Conditions
- Temperature
- 23 – 27 °C
- pH range
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.026 SG
- Adult size
- 5 – 7 cm
- Min. tank size
- 100 litres+
- Lifespan
- 2 – 4 years
- Diet
- Omnivore — parasites, detritus and meaty frozen foods
- Water flow
- Moderate
- Preferred setup
- Reef aquarium with overhangs and caves used as cleaning stations
About the Cleaner Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp are among the most useful and entertaining reef invertebrates. They are peaceful, easy to keep in stable salinity and will readily clean the hands of a keeper as well as the fish.
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Where Cleaner Shrimp comes from
Native range
Indo-Pacific, Red Sea
Countries / regions
Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt, Maldives
Habitat
Reef caves and overhangs, where the shrimp maintains cleaning stations visited by fish.
Illustrative native range only, not an occurrence dataset.
Similar species
Fire Shrimp
Lysmata debelius
Peppermint Shrimp
Lysmata wurdemanni
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Compatible tank mates
Reviewed guidance based on this species' recorded traits.
- Great
Yellow Tang
Zebrasoma flavescens
Tangs actively visit cleaning stations, which is a genuine benefit to both animals.
- Great
Royal Gramma
Gramma loreto
Peaceful and no threat to a shrimp of this size.
- Compatible with caution
Six Line Wrasse
Pseudocheilinus hexataenia
Adults are usually safe, but a wrasse may harass a freshly moulted shrimp.
- Compatible with caution
Bubble Tip Anemone
Entacmaea quadricolor
A shrimp that blunders into the tentacles of a large anemone can be caught and eaten.
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