Goby/Pistol pair

[primo21]

Want to add a goby / pistol shrimp pair to my reef and have a question on introduction. is there a recommended order of introdcution? i mean should the shrimp or goby be added to the system in a particular order? i plan on qt the goby, so the shrimp would have plenty of time to settle into the display if they go in first.

thanks.

 

[CoralNerd]

Get a Yasha goby there awesome.

I guess if the shrimp has to go in first, then when you put the goby in, try to put him in the same location.

Get the candy pistol shrimp [emoji2]

 

[primo21]

i have not purchased either yet...thats kinda my question. do i get the goby first or the shrimp first or does it not matter?

 

[CedzAquAddictio]

There's no definitive order. Mine paired up in QT, and were added added to the DT at the same time, and it took them 4 months to find each other after scattering when added (they separated looking for hiding places).

I honestly thought my goby had died. I only saw it once or twice in those 4 months. One day while feeding my tank, I saw him dart out, and get some food. It honestly scared me. I didn't know what it was, but after looking under a few rocks, I saw him and my shrimp joined at the hip. I was very glad to know they found eachother.

I have a 225g tank with about 300 pounds of LR, so if they can find eachother in my tank, they can find eachother in just about any tank.

Best of luck. Keep us posted...

 

[primo21]

thanks Cedz...if there is no order than i think i will get the goby first, put him through QT and into the diplay to find a home. since i use copper in my qt i wont be able to add the shrimp with him. after the goby is added i will get the shrimp and release as close to the goby hole as i can. hopefully he finds it.

 

[CedzAquAddictio]

Np. Just be patient with them. They may find eachother immediatly, or it may take some time like it did for me.

I still laugh that I went through so much trouble to add them at the same time, and they both bolted in opposite directions once they hit the water in DT

How large is your tank? They may not have as hard of a time finding eachother...

 

[murdock84]

I had a yellow watchman in the tank for a few weeks with my other fish. he just sat on the bottom and did nothing. After a few weeks I picked up a tiger pistol shrimp. Within an hour and a half they got together and have not separated since.

 

[Stevenliu9]

IMO really doesn't matter. I had a Tiger pistol it actually lived with a small group of filefish goby for a while. Then I upgraded to 180 and it paired up with a yellow watchman the day they were introduced together.

 

[snorvich]

Order is not important. They will find each other.

 

[sde1500]

I just bought a pair together, so that probably helped. Pistol and a hi-fin Goby. They were already paired at the LFS, put them in the same bag, acclimated together, and introduced to the tank together. They went their separate ways, but found each other within a day. Sadly, burrowed inside a cave in one of my rocks, so near impossible to see, but oh well.

 

[petemichelle]

my lfs has a gobby and pistol shrimp pair. I don't remember which gobby but i am pretty sure it was a tiger shrimp. anyway, my question is that will the gobby or shrimp kill and eat my other inverts, worms, or pods? how about corals, especially zoanthids. will they munch on or destroy them? I was at the lfs and was watching them. I saw the shrimp drag what looked like a hermit crab into the hole. I told the owner of the store who was standing next to me and he went in and lifted the rock up and found a lot of shells in there. he seems to think it was probably an empty shell and the shrimp uses them to shore up his cave. I was pretty sure there was a hermit crab in it. anyway my concern is them decimating my clean up crew of snails and crabs, or eating all my worms, I have a lot of spaghetti worms and bristle worms, pods, and other creatures that i have painstakingluy introduced and cultivated into my 150 gal system. one time I bought a 6 line wrasse at the suggestion of the lfs and all of a sudden I didn't have any more worms or pods, it took me a while to notice and figure out. anyway, that was a costly mistake, wouldn't want to happen again. and then I had the tangs with bad behavior who tore up my tank eating all the zoanthids.

can anybody give me insight on the eating and hunting habits of the shrimp and gobby pair? again I don't know which gobby but the lfs said it was not a sand sifting one.