Rhynchocinetes durbanensis

Acclimation: like all shrimp, it copes badly with sudden changes in temperature, pH or other water parameters. Drip-acclimate it for about one hour.

Setup: provide crevices, overhangs and coral rubble where the group can gather, and enough hiding places for moulting.

Tankmates: keep it in a group, as solitary individuals often do poorly; keep only one male per tank, as males spar. It usually tolerates other shrimp. Corals: it may nip colonial anemones, disc anemones and leather corals; Rhynchocinetes in general may also go for zoanthids and possibly other soft corals. It usually leaves bubble corals and stinging anemones alone.

Sensitivities: like other invertebrates, it does not tolerate copper or high nitrate.

Water: LiveAquaria gives a range of 18 to 25 °C, a specific gravity of 1.023 to 1.025, pH 8.1 to 8.4 and 8 to 12 dKH.

In the wild it feeds at night on detritus and sessile invertebrates, and is thought to scavenge the leftovers of moray eels.

In the aquarium it accepts brine shrimp, frozen or freeze-dried plankton and flakes. None of the sources consulted gives a feeding frequency.