Description:
The Banded Coral shrimp is easily recognized by the red & white bands that circle its body and and very long front claws and very long white antennae. It belongs to the cleaner shrimp family which sometimes picks parasites off of fish.  I observed one of my Banded Coral shrimp engage in cleaner behavior with a yellow tang only once.   It is a very striking specimen.

Natural Environment:
Pacific Ocean.  Not currently breed in captivity.

Care:
Reef Suitability:  The Banded Coral shrimp usually does fine in a reef tank.  It does not usually eat its reef tank mates, but they can be somewhat aggressive and pull at corals to get food out of the corals tentacles and mouths.  I have kept them with all forms of reef tank inhabitants including clams, SPS, LPS, softies and other shrimp and have never had a problem.  They will normally stay back in the rockwork and come out only to forage and feed, mostly at night.  The only possible casualty that I have observed is with a Peppermint shrimp, but it may have already been deceased rather than killed by the Banded Coral shrimp.