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Three-spined Peppermint Shrimp
Lysmata trisetacea
A Pacific peppermint shrimp, excellent helper in controlling glass anemones on live rock.
- Family
- Hippolytidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacifico: dalle coste dell'Africa orientale fino alle barriere coralline di Hawaii.
- Origin
- Tropical oceans and reefsAfrica and Madagascar
- Tank use
- Used in 0 tanks
Share
22 °C - 26 °C
8.1 - 8.4
Marine
Spazzino
Alta
Species description
Geographical Origin and Habitat: Indo-Pacific: widespread from East African coasts to the Hawaiian Islands.
Taxonomy: Belongs to the Hippolytidae family. It exhibits a morphology typical of reef-dwelling scavenger invertebrates, growing to a size of 4.0 cm.
Social Behavior: Very peaceful and secretive. It leads a benthic lifestyle, spending much of its time sheltered within crevices or sandy burrows.
Coloration and Sexual Dimorphism: The coloration consists of cryptic or distinct markings helpful for camouflage. Sexual dimorphism is not externally prominent.
Care, breeding and tankmates
Tank Setup: Requires a reef aquarium of at least 80.0 liters with stable rockwork. Provide shaded areas and caves to shelter during molting.
Diet and Feeding: Omnivore. Acts as a scavenger, eating leftover foods, micro-crustaceans, organic debris, and sinking pellets.
Water Quality: Reef parameters with pH 8.1-8.4, gravity 1.023-1.025, and low nitrates are critical.
Compatibility and Tankmates: Peaceful. Reef-safe. Do not house with large, aggressive fish species that might consider it prey.
Aquarium Breeding: Simultaneous hermaphrodite. Breeding is complex due to a prolonged planktonic larval phase which rarely survives.
Risks and Diseases: High sensitivity to copper-based medications. Risk of osmotic shock; requires slow drip acclimation.
Invertebrate profile
- Type
- Gambero marino
- Diet
- Onnivoro. Caccia parassiti, Aiptasia, mangia avanzi di cibo congelato e pellet.
- Ecological role
- Spazzino
- Minimum group
- 1
- Adult size
- 4 cm
- GH
- n/a
- KH
- n/a
- TDS
- n/a
- Copper
- Alta
- Shock sensitivity
- Alta
- Calcium and minerals
- Un'adeguata concentrazione di calcio supporta la solidità del nuovo esoscheletro.
- Molting
- Esegue la muta di notte. Rimane nascosto negli anfratti più bui fino al ripristino del guscio.
- Reproduction
- Ermafrodita simultaneo. Riproduzione registrata ma svezzamento larvale estremamente difficile.
- Compatibility & tankmates
- Reef-safe per coralli. Può rubare occasionalmente il cibo dai polipi dei coralli LPS.
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