Shrimp ID

Ontheway

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I have added a couple of shrimps seen below, in the hopes for aiptasia cleaning, but band patterns are a lot different then L. wurdemanni. Do you have any guess ?

Also, here is a video of whats happening shortly after transfer the shrimps to tank:

http://youtu.be/wf2UFn4Lpdg
 

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I have added a couple of shrimps seen below, in the hopes for aiptasia cleaning, but band patterns are a lot different then L. wurdemanni. Do you have any guess ?

It's either a Lysmata hochi (which is a newly described species known to be found in the Caribbean Panama and Florida) or the close relative of Lysmata kuekenthali.
 
Finally some answers after 60 visits, thanks a lot for the bump and answers, It is very unlikely to be a newly discovered species, therefore I guess it should be L. kuekenthali, which I just read some good things about.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2223351&page=2
http://166.78.194.232/forums/showthread.php?t=2248491

This means wurdemanni is not alone in aiptasia hunt.
Although after 3 days, all the ugly guys (aip) are still holding their positions,
bad guys (cleaners) are drifting around for a seek&destroy mission,
and good guys (guess) are hiding under stones and caves (didnT see one of them in last 24h, so there may be only one good guy left..)
 
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