Shrimp with two barber poles attached

[Darnold9999]

Found near Komodo Island mid water at night early October. The shrimp is about an inch long the two poles attached to the front are 4 to 6 inches long. We watched this creature for about 2 minutes and the two poles are really attached - makes no sense to me at all. Initially it used the poles to attack my dive light. This was the best picture I could get - mid water at night with autofocus was a bit tricky. Thanks for any help.

 

[vincent54]

Long Armed Prawn, heteropenaeus longimanus would be my guess. I believe they reach up to 4 cm long.

 

[Darnold9999]

Thanks, the poles are certainly the right color - possibly this was a juvenile and will grow in to the poles???

 

[drbill]

Is this a cleaner species? Perhaps use the "poles" to attract host species to be cleaned? Or possibly use them for defense?