This Putergarnele originates from an import of the company Tropical Live import, Menden in the sour country. Appears not very shy and is difficult nich to keep. Adapt to shrimps particularly well and slowly to the new water, since this to density variations are somewhat more sensitive than other animals…

We hold a pair in the shrimp basin. We are not us united whether this kind of shrimp is suitable for a society basin actually, since we could observe already several times that they tore and ate whole Tentakeln from the Quadricolors. Because of hunger it cannot have been.

We get the Lysmata kueckenthali regular from the Philippines Dr. Thomas Heeger Cebu. After customer information this shrimp eats also from glass roses.

From what I gather elsewhere, it is one of the 25 species of cleaner shrimps in the Lysmata genus, comes from East Asia, and is kind of a Pacific version of the Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni). It is almost twice the size of my Peppermints, and it is way more aggressive than my peps or skunk cleaner - not so much aggressive towards tank mates, it seems as calm as any cleaner, but as soon as the scent of food hits the water, this guys goes nuts. Hopefully I can find some more information on it. If not, I have a cool new shrimp I’ve never seen in any LFS before.

I haven’t gotten any live rock in over 3 years, so this thing must have started as tiny? I would love an ID on this guy if anyone has a clue. I’m off to Google. he’s sitting in a plastic specimen container for now. I hope someone in a local club might want it to feed to a puffer or for a sump. The hippie in me just can’t kill it.