Description

The Fire Blood Shrimp, also known as Blood Shrimp, Fire Shrimp, or Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp, is one of the most popular shrimp in the aquarium hobby. It has a blood-red body with white spots and long white antennae. Depending on which region of the Indo-Pacific from which it originates, it may have the white dots just on its carapace, or covering its entire body. The Fire Blood Shrimp or Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp prefers a habitat providing it with a cave or overhang where the lighting is not too intense.

While the Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp will tolerate its mate, others of its own kind will be chased away or harassed. It is generally peaceful with most other organisms in the reef system unless they impinge on its territory.