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Lysmata shrimp, what does lysmata really mean?

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Post  liquidg 1st March 2019, 1:04 am

All of them are born males and the name lysmata partly means hermaphrodite!
All lysmata, well peppermint shrimp, red lines and blood shrimp are hermaphrodites, and as we know, hermaphrodite means both sexes in one.
With red lines and peps you can see their ovaries with in their carapace.
The first time they shed after many sheds at around one and a half inches on average, they then become adult, now being both sexes.
It shows with a very pale green in their carapace, then as they age it’s a more pronounced green, you can see this clearly with banded coral shrimp as well, but that is only seen with the female with them, they are not lysmata.
Once you can see the green in a lysmata, they are now both sexes!
Lysmata are the only shrimp, as far as I know, that can be fertilised by another adult with out the need to shed first and send out those hormones telling the guys and predators, I am ready, lol, This makes their reproduction possible each 8 to 10 days, because they both reproduce.
With most crustaceans the sperm can only enter when the flesh is soft when they come out through the gap they make between the old carapace and their tail, that was under the old shell, then it hardens, like most crustaceans.

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