Help trapping or catching a pistol shrimp!!!!!!

[Dendro Dude]

I I have had this guy for 4 years he was paired with a pair of yasha gobies who died. Now pistol pete's landscaping is open for business on a nightly frigging basis. He like to dig plugs into his cave he's killed countless zs & ps & a $50 orange fungia plate. I have waited patiently, I don't feed him and have just been hoping he'd die of natural causes & last night well let's just say he was doing what he does again Now this MF has got to go!!!!!! I am up early & ready to move rock to get him out. I just figured I would ask you guys if there's an easier way to get him out maybe at trap of some kind or a creative way to kill him & I hate to say it but morally I'm in a place where I could live with that!

 

[Calappidae]

TBH just move the corals. Mine buries the plate coral daily.

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[Betta132]

If you can't get everything away from him, place a bottle trap right at the biggest entrance to his tunnel.
Take him to an LFS, that's an unusual sort of pistol shrimp and somebody'll probably pay you for him.

 

[MikeandNicole]

That looks like a candy pistol to me. Reef safe and a welcome inhabitant to many.
I would try to trap him.
How large is the tank he is in?
Can you remove some rock work? I've never really had a problem catching them, and I've moved tanks way too many times over the past few years. The candy isn't likely to snap at your fingers, if you can remove rockwork you should just be able to scoop him up in a tupperware or a white net, they have really poor eyesight and I'd go so far as to call them easy to remove. You can even sift the sand with your fingers if necessary, not pleasant but I've done this more than once with success.

 

[Betta132]

I got shot by one of those once... It felt like being snapped by a small rubber band. Didn't really hurt, actually, just not pleasant. They don't shoot much at all, though... They're fairly safe to handle, they have no way to do damage to you.

 

[Dendro Dude]

I got em the old fashion way removed all the rights and put them in one of those cups with the holes in em done :-D

 

[FroggyKnight]

I got em the old fashion way removed all the rights and put them in one of those cups with the holes in em done :-D

Nice! Glad you were able to save your coral.

My tiger pistol is a jerk. He constantly digs and even discovered the wonderful assortment of doorstops I have on the rockwork:thumbdown

The little guy also snaps at my hand if I get too close to him..... I still love him though

John

 

[Mrs. Music]

Good luck. Mine has been unwanted and uncatchable for about six years!

 

[millie2010]

i stinkin' love these guys. i could watch them for hours. i put different colored buttons in the tank & watch to see how they use them in the landscape! but i cant imagine putting up with the constant upheavel if you didn't really love them.

 

[Betta132]

When I was trying to catch my tiger in a bottle trap for a rescape, he wouldn't go in. He'd start to crawl in, feel around with his antennae, realize it was a trap, and back out. And then he heaved the trap up, propped it with a shell, and used it as a roof for a tunnel he was making out of shells. Cocky little snapper.

 

[nawilson89]

When I was trying to catch my tiger in a bottle trap for a rescape, he wouldn't go in. He'd start to crawl in, feel around with his antennae, realize it was a trap, and back out. And then he heaved the trap up, propped it with a shell, and used it as a roof for a tunnel he was making out of shells. Cocky little snapper.

I love this post so much!

 

[MidMichiganReef]

The problem started when he lost his partner so go get him a new partner.