Cleaner shrimp belly

[zoosalert]

Anyone here knows how to enhance the colour of ur Lysmata amboeniesis to a deep yellow colour?

Everytime i visit an LFS,i would see those cleaner shrimps with a really deep yellow belly,but the one in my tank has a very plain belly not very yellow

Thanks:)

[Putawaywet]

You might want to take a closer look at those shrimp the next at your LFS to make sure they aren't carrying eggs. Lysmata are gravid about half their adult lives if in the company of one or more of the same species. The eggs start out yellow and then change to more of a green coloration as time goes on.

Brett

[zoosalert]

thanks a lot...

[hawkfan]

I have seen that, what happens to the eggs after they lay them. I guess the other fish eat them.

[bertoni]

The eggs are held until they hatch, and then the fish and the shrimp (including the mother) have a nice meal.