cool shrimp living in my clam

[scubabum1983]

I was just looking at my teardrop maxima and there was this little shrimp moving around in it. i was a little longer than one of my finger nails with purple dots on it and the body was transparent. definatly not one of the reef mysis or a amphapod. any ideas what it is?

 

[scubabum1983]

i saw him again and he has a bigger claw and looks a little like a little pistol shrimp. very very cool looking. about the length of my pinky nail. ill try and get a picture in the next couple of days

 

[Tanque Verde]

sexy shrimp?

 

[scubabum1983]

no he definatly has the morphology of a pistol shrimp. im having a tough time getting a picture of him because of how he resides in the clam, and the clam doesnt seem bothered by him

 

[Tanque Verde]

commensal, maybe?

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/shrimp.html

they're apparently common in certain types of clams:

http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/crustaceans/shrimp/photoalbum_photo_view?b_start=0

more on this guy, with better pix:
http://advancedaquarist.com/issues/oct2004/editorial.htm

 

[scubabum1983]

thats the one the commensal shrimp. pretty cool