A beautiful small shrimp that lives in brackish water , but
can also be found in the north sea. As the name suggests has the abilty to
change it's color, depending on the surrounding. Green and yellow
and brown are possible. The rear end is transparant and in the evening they
look a bit blueish. This small creature is afraid of all the other aquarium
animals. It lives from algae that grow on sea weeds. The Kew Garden sea aquarium
use this nice animal to keep the aquaria free of algae.
Palaemon prawns
There are many prawns and shrimps that look transparant
The names ad appearance are confusing: Palaemon elegans is partly transparant,
has yellow rings on its legs and above them blue rings.
The stripes on its body are brown/red.
Palaemon serratus This shrimp has yellow rings on its legs
but also brown red rings. Brown/red stripes can also be found on its body
Grass shrimp (Palaemon varians)
This shrimp has yellow rings on its legs and the stripes on the abdomen are hard to be seen
