Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Peppermint shrimp




For the last couple of weeks, I've been peering inside pink vase sponges, looking for peppermint shrimp. I have regularly seen the same shrimp in the same sponge. But today, diving at a different site, I found 3 pairs of peppermint shrimp, inside pink vase sponges.

Although peppermint shrimp are a cleaning shrimp, I haven't yet seen one cleaning a fish.

The shrimp range from 1 to 1.75 inches, and the sponges were at depths of 35 to 45 feet.

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