Pedersen’s Cleaner Shrimp

Pedersen’s shrimp lives in association with sea anemones, either Bartholomea annulata or Condylatics gigantea, living among the tentacles with impunity.  Before it can do this it needs to acclimatize itself to the anemone by progressively pressing its body and appendages against the tentacles for increasing periods of time.  After this it is able to move between tentacles without being stung.  The shrimp offers cleaning services to passing fish and attracts their attention by lashing its antennae about. They have also been seen working along side Neon gobies.