Hi
Thanks for a very informative article with some great pictures!
I especially like the video would that trio occur in a captive environment with the same fish?
I recently (about 4 months ago) purchased what I identified as S. nematodes after asking my retailer to get them for ages (they are not very common in the LF'S in Scotland) and then a few weeks ago while visiting a guy who had set up his own coral farm he happened to mention he had some pistol shrimps and would be willing to sell me one (these never appear in the trade here, except the free living ones that come with live rock which I assume are not the same as the ones that co-habit with gobies?).
So on getting the pistol shrimp home I identified it from The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium Vol 4 as A. bellulus or tiger pistol? I therefore didn't think it would pair up with this goby but after accliming him put him in next to the goby the shrimp immediately started to touch the goby and to my surprise within about 24 hours they had set up home together, the tank is quite small 24" x 24" x 18" high with a deep sand bed and only 2 small skunk clowns, 1 yellowheaded jawfish so it's a very peaceful tank, I guess my question is are you surprised this species of shrimp is living with this goby or will the shrimps 'shack up' with an available goby in a captive environment even though it isn't the one it would normally share a burrow with in the wild?
They have done quite a lot of excavation between them all over the tank and tend to move around for a while but they always come back to roughly the same area is this normal I was wondering if I need to put a little more rubble in as the sand bed is a mix of Aragamax sugar fine and Grand bahama, the one with the shells. I would love to get a mate for the goby and the pistol as well is it possible to just introduce a smaller goby/pistol shrimp to the existing set up or would that be too risky? is it possible to sex the pistol shrimps?
Hope this isn't too many questions! thanks again for a great article
cheers
Carolyn
Thanks for a very informative article with some great pictures!
I especially like the video would that trio occur in a captive environment with the same fish?
I recently (about 4 months ago) purchased what I identified as S. nematodes after asking my retailer to get them for ages (they are not very common in the LF'S in Scotland) and then a few weeks ago while visiting a guy who had set up his own coral farm he happened to mention he had some pistol shrimps and would be willing to sell me one (these never appear in the trade here, except the free living ones that come with live rock which I assume are not the same as the ones that co-habit with gobies?).
So on getting the pistol shrimp home I identified it from The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium Vol 4 as A. bellulus or tiger pistol? I therefore didn't think it would pair up with this goby but after accliming him put him in next to the goby the shrimp immediately started to touch the goby and to my surprise within about 24 hours they had set up home together, the tank is quite small 24" x 24" x 18" high with a deep sand bed and only 2 small skunk clowns, 1 yellowheaded jawfish so it's a very peaceful tank, I guess my question is are you surprised this species of shrimp is living with this goby or will the shrimps 'shack up' with an available goby in a captive environment even though it isn't the one it would normally share a burrow with in the wild?
They have done quite a lot of excavation between them all over the tank and tend to move around for a while but they always come back to roughly the same area is this normal I was wondering if I need to put a little more rubble in as the sand bed is a mix of Aragamax sugar fine and Grand bahama, the one with the shells. I would love to get a mate for the goby and the pistol as well is it possible to just introduce a smaller goby/pistol shrimp to the existing set up or would that be too risky? is it possible to sex the pistol shrimps?
Hope this isn't too many questions! thanks again for a great article
cheers
Carolyn