Got him!...Photographically...ID please

[calvertbill]

I finally got some okay pix of my mysterious hitchiker. He's a little over an inch long.
Please tell me he's harmless...nah, tell me the truth.

 

[jrthomas40]

looks like a camelback shrimp...quite possibly a peppermint

 

[jrthomas40]

based on the pics from here...my money is on peppermint and is a good addition to a reef tank

 

[arod268]

Thats a peppermint shrimp

 

[calvertbill]

Thanks, that's what I'd hoped.

 

[apos]

Looks like the Loch Ness monster to me. Your best bet is to feed it pizza and whole suckling pigs and pray that it doesn't eat you.

 

[m0nk]

Definitely a peppermint shrimp.

 

[fishissues]

loooks like a camel to me look at the nose in the pics it looks long like a camal

 

[perfectdark]

Camelbacks typically dont have symetrical lines as this one seems to have in different locations. They also have green eyes as this one seems to have black more of a peppermint shrimp. While camel backs and peppermints both have a hump a camel backs IMO have a much more pronounced hump. I am going with peppermint. IMO

 

[saltn00b]

definitely a peppermint and not a camelback. they look very different if you compare them side by side.

 

[m0nk]

Yeah, definitely not a camelback, they have white stripes with a red body, while peppermint have red with a see-through body. Just check out the pics here on swf.com:
Peppermint:
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11...ot_parent_id=4
Camelback
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11...ot_parent_id=4
When you see them in person, side by side, they are even more noticeably different. My LFS sells them so it's easy to see them in a good setting for this.

 

[snakeblitz33]

be careful though, peppermints can be pesky and annoying to many sedentary corals and creatures such as clams.

 

[turtlegirl933]

Its just a peppermint, conpletey harmless. I wish I had one of those "hitch hikers"