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Saltwater Invertebrates Guides
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Invertebrate
Blue Leg Hermit Crab
A Blue Leg Hermit Crab may contribute grazing and scavenging in a marine cleanup crew, but its behavior and compatibility are husbandry considerations rather than guarantees. It can be opportunistic and may fight other hermits or kill snails for food or shells.
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Cleaner Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp in this Guide refers to Lysmata amboinensis, a colorful reef shrimp known for setting up cleaning stations where willing fish allow it to remove mucus, dead tissue, and some external material. In aquariums it is also an active scavenger and a highly visible display animal.
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Peppermint Shrimp
A small, mostly nocturnal reef shrimp valued as a scavenger. Some aquarium-trade animals may consume pest Aiptasia anemones, but species identification and results vary, so this Guide does not promise Aiptasia control.
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Trochus Snail
A cone-shelled reef snail widely used in cleanup crews. It moves across glass and rock, scraping film algae and diatoms with its radula, and many commonly sold trochus can right themselves after falling.
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