2 IDs please

[SmashingBaby]

First post, but I'm not new to the subject. Hopefully Dr.Roy or one of ya'll can help me out.

Spearer - around 2.5 inches

Smasher - 4ish inches

I can blow up and crop my other pictures if this one is not good enough for an ID.

My apologies if the pics don't work. I just want to know if there is anything unusual in the care of these 2 species, temperature and diet-wise. I've been feeding them dead or dying shrimp from the LFS, turbo snails, krill, local shore crabs, intertidal shrimp, small chromis (free from LFS if they are injured already), etc.

Cheers

 

[SmashingBaby]

 

[venwu225]

first picture: Pseudosquilla ciliata
Second picture: Gonodactylus chiragra(female)

 

[Wocka]

woah, ive never seen a pic of a spearer before? does anyone have a pic that shows the spear claws or what not

 

[SmashingBaby]

any suggestions on tank-mates for the chiragra?

 

[venwu225]

very aggressive animals, wiser to keep it in a species only

 

[pisces77]

While the chiragra doesn't get huge, those little guys pack a BIG whollup so you might want him in a 20g

 

[SmashingBaby]

20 gallon? Really? She's in a 10 gallon right now and happy as can be. I bought her from a guy who had her in a 8 gallon bowfront, with no burrow. When I got there she was in the fetal position next to the live rock, so I knew I had to get her. I made a burrow that is horizontal to the substrate with an angular fitting as an entrance, so its nice and dark in her burrow. \___

She's a little bit shy. She will watch me walking around the room, but go in her burrow as soon as I approach. My P. ciliata on the other hand is running around all the time, rearranging this and looking at that. So fun, like a puppy.

As for tank mates, I have the chiagra in with a peppermint shrimp that knows what's up and a hermit crab that lives in the thickest, most beat up shell I've ever seen (he sleeps at the very top of the tallest live rock, he knows). And the ciliata live with 2 damsels, each just a little too big for him to capture, but small enough to make **** off.

I've been thinking about adding a fish in the the chigara since she doesn't come out of her burrow much. The last fish I had in there was a dollar damsel that died because it was territorial and was displaying to the mantis.

 

[Jacob D]

I have a female chiragra and the color is a lot lighter than that with pink appendages, I think it's a male. Dr. Roy advised that keeping it in a minibow 5 would be fine, but mine is only 2.5 - 3 inches, and the tank is acrylic.