Post your pistol shrimp/goby pair!!

Lol! Yea I've woke up to the tank being a disaster before! Just gotta keep flow low during the night so the sand if it's sugar fine doesn't blow onto the corals. My green pistol blocks off different passages every night and opens them again later. It's cool


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I put a pink spot goby in before i put in a randell pistol shrimp in... shrimp was all of about a quarter inch... never saw them together or pair up and am pretty sure the shrimp is dead and a gone...

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It's not of the right goby family I think. Yea I've red it wasn't to be paired with anything. Bit more of a mild sand sifter then one to pair up. My punk spotted picked on any other goby. Plus pink spotted is huge compared to the watchmen or high fin goby lol


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nbelohlav said:
am pretty sure the shrimp is dead and a gone..
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Don't be so quick to think the worst.

I also have a japanese pistol shrimp (Alpheus bisincisus) in our cube and it resides in the back corner. These shrimp usually don't pair up with gobies, but I like them for their groundskeeping duties and bought it anyways.
After having it for about a year I noticed the shrimp was missing. Without seeing it for a week, I suspected it must have died. But after a month, he turned back up in its back corner burrow. So it had either moved into a new burrow for a month or just stayed in. (As both of my pistol shrimps have dropped/lost their right claws in the past, only to grow back after some time. And they are more timid during that time.)

So... hopefully your shrimp is just hiding out. A shrimp that small will certainly find many places to hide.
Just keep an eye for it... or an ear. You may just hear that "snap" to let you know that it's still there.

-JASON
 
Seagars said:
i wish i could. mine never come out.
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I like spot feeding mine :) I take my tweezers (tank is less then 10"t) grab one or two soaked mysis shrimp and hold it move it in front of each burrow till they sneak and snatch it. Or if you turn all flow off and leave a few in front he may even walk out like mine did. NEVER have I seen him leave that far out for food!


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I can feed both the tiger pistol and the japanese pistol by hand.
They'll come out and take pieces of silverside or krill that I use to feed LPS and the anemone. It takes a matter of a minute or two before they leave their burrows, but they both do.
The tiger pistol isn't shy at all. As he changes burrows from one side of the tank to the other, it will dig a trench across the tank. Doesn't matter if it's day or night. I can be right down in front of the glass watching him and he goes about his business; with the goby keeping a close eye on me of course.

-JASON
 
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