Peppermint Shrimp searches for food in the sand at the bottom of your tank.Breeding: Peppermint Shrimp does spawn actively in a marine aquarium but their larvae do not survive in a captive environment.Peppermint Shrimp eats frozen meaty bits, detritus, vegetable flakes, frozen and dried krill, brine shrimp, earthworms, pellets, bloodworms, nauplii, polyp corals and around an inch large Aiptasia anemone.Peppermint Shrimp is Carnivorous in feeding habit and feeds at least once daily.Acclimatize Peppermint Shrimp slowly in a minimum time period of two hours, using slow drip method.
You can keep a pair or a small group of Peppermint Shrimp in your marine aquarium.Keep Peppermint Shrimp with non-aggressive tank members.Keep rock caves, vegetation and Live Rocks in your tank for Peppermint Shrimp to hide behind. To host Peppermint Shrimp, you should have a fish only marine aquarium with a minimum water capacity of ten gallons or thirty-eight liters.Specific gravity of water: 1.023 to 1.025.Temperature of water: Seventy-two to seventy-eight degrees Fahrenheit.Growth enabling environment in your marine aquarium: The cream colored body of Peppermint Shrimp is opaque and striped with red or maroon color.Peppermint Shrimp is nocturnal in nature and therefore, hides out during the day time behind rocks, overhangs or rock caves, whereas it actively feeds at night. However, it is aggressive towards some species of shrimps, especially Coral Banded Shrimp. Peppermint Shrimp is semi-aggressive towards the marine aquarium members. Peppermint Shrimp occurs in cream, red and white colors. Peppermint Shrimp grows up to a size of around two inches or five centimeters. Peppermint Shrimp originates from the Indo-Pacific region including Caribbean, Florida and East Atlantic. Peppermint Shrimp is also commonly known as Candy Cane Shrimp, Caribbean Cleaner Shrimp and Veined Shrimp. Peppermint Shrimp belongs to the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda, Family Hippolytidae, Genus Lysmata and Species wurdemanni.
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