Interesting Cleaner Shrimp facts
· Cleaner Shrimp couples set up a cleaning station together where they clean shrimp.
· Baby Shrimps are called Nauplii.
· During mating season male Pacific Cleaner Shrimps will feed on the female Cleaner Shrimps.
· Most Cleaner Shrimps are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female reproductive organs.
· The Cleaner Shrimp is also known as the Boxing Shrimp because when attracting fish they weave from side to side like a boxer.
· Cleaner Shrimps have 5 pairs of legs, including claws.
· The main dangers of Cleaner Shrimp survival are marine pollution and destruction of its habitat.
· Cleaner Shrimps are closely related to the Common European Shrimp which are commercially sold as food.
Below is a video of a type of Cleaner Shrimp dancing on an Anemone-later in the video another Cleaner Shrimp comes along!
