Carribean Cleaner Shrimp

[ssavader]

Has anyone had problems with these guys devastating their amphipod population. It seemed as though I had hundreds in the tank before i got these two shrimp. Now, its impossible to find one, even at night.
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[ssavader]

Sorry, here's the pic.

Sorry, here's the pic.

Carribean Cleaner Shrimp

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[philter4]

The photo you showed is the pacific cleaner, Lysmata amboinensis, not the atlantic cleaner L. garbhami. The difference is in the tail color, in garbhami the white is a stripe from top to bottom of the fin, not spots. I have a pair of Caribbean scarlet ladys in a nano right now and they have not impacted the amphipods or coepapods. They have been there for at least 7 months, I can't remember exactly when I collected them but I believe it was last spring. It may have been longer. I have never kept the pacific ones, I have collected them but I prefer the atlantics because they are not as common in the hobby. I believe care is the same, so IMO it wasn't them, but I can't say for sure.