Shrimp ID?

[fireeater]

The guy at the LFS threw this in for free yesterday. We thought at first it was an over grown ghost shrimp. Though when I got him in my tank he has come alive in colors.
Sorry for the poor quality pics as he was hovering just inside the starfish cave.
First one is with a flashlight on him.

 

[fireeater]

He has green colors with orange.

 

[fireeater]

He is about 3 inches long.

 

[sea goblin]

Looks like a coral banded shrimp to me, i could be wrong, but i would bet thats what it is.

 

[mossad327]

That thing's pretty freaky. It looks like it has human eyes.

 

[fireeater]

Not a CBS, I have one already and the 2 are way different.
He is neat looking and moves around picking at the rocks.

 

[jedininja]

That this is pretty cool. Nice to have something that most people dont have. But it surely is not a CBS. Not even close to color or body shape. Hope its reef safe

 

[fireeater]

You mean I have a rare and usual and unidentifiable freebie?
hehe

 

[sitnlowdown]

hey it looks like a camel shrimp to me

 

[krishj39]

yeah, i think it looks closest to a camel shrimp, but not an exact match, could be a weird looking camel, or something else entirely.

 

[j21kickster]

looks similar but dosent have hump- and not same colors- not quite sure

 

[nm reef]

Kind of tough to tell for sure but it does look like a peppermint to me...possibly a camel.

 

[slothy]

camelback

peppermint

 

[fireeater]

Not a camelback as the colors do not match, no hump and the long front claws.
He picks at the rocks like a shrimp does and also eats pieces of shrimp or squid like the rest.
The colors on him are light green and yellow. He can also be see through at times with his inards being orange. The long front claws set him off from the rest.
He does not bother anything and acts like the camelback I have.

 

[xxvietxjustinxx]

nice looking shrimp

 

[a_fender69]

It is not a camel or peppermint shrimp
It is from the periclimenes family and because there have been so few found, it dosn't have a name. It is found near the philippines.
Sorry I have no more info

 

[marco68]

Looks like a type of Saron Shrimp to me.

 

[sitnlowdown]

lol when our lfs throw stuff in for free its not a good thing because they have ate fish of kill corals lol no freebe from where i live but thats a nice looking shrimp or a nice freebe

 

[dfishh]

maybe its sum kinda variation of a cbs, but its just a very young one. like there r clown mantis shrmp, and regular ones, c wat im getting at here? the reason i think its a baby cbs is becuze of those large front claws. my frends cbs lost a whole arm, the one in the front with the big claw on it. after it molted, it grew back a very small one, looking simalar to the ones that ur shrimp is sportin. i dunno really but thats just in my opinion
DAVE

 

[danrw84]

wierd.
cool little guy to have in a tank though...
hope it doesnt harm anything.
nice job!