Seriously bummed....

aquadonkey

aquadonkey

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I just got a lovely frag of blue hornets yesterday from Justin and placed it proudly on my little frag rack waiting for the new tank to be ready (should only be a few more days.....). Today a snail knocked it off to the sand bed and the pistol shrimp took it into his burrow before I could do anything about it.
I fished around what I could get to of the burrow with no luck - the only other thing I can think of would involve taking my rock-work apart which seems risky (and also like I still wouldn't find it)....
pretty bummed about this....
also - sorry Justin. It was a nice little frag :(
 
lol...don't be too bummed, these things happen. Try to fish it outta there with a chopstick or something ;). I'll fix you up if you can't find them.
 
How about a 3/8" syphon hose into a filter sock in the sump or a bucket. You can return the water right back into your tank that way.
 
Thanks for the solidarity guys - and thanks for the great idea Steve! I'll try it out and let you all know if anything comes of it - not too optimistic, since their burrow is probably about 2 feet long (lot's of hiding places!) but it's worth a try!
And yes, Mel - he did get a stern talking to, as well as a heart-felt plea to please give mommy her pretty coral back :)
 
keep us posted. I have a couple zoo frags that ended up down in one of the engineer goby's tunnels and would like to know how Steve's idea worked.
 
Choices, choices.......

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I have a pistol shrimp that does that sort of thing all of the time. I have to cement stuff down. They are supposed to live about 5 yrs mine is over 7. I think I'll miss it when it's gone but I'm not really sure.
 
My pistol used to do the same thing only he would actually pick the glue off the plugs. until I re homed him I had him 4 years and I know previously the person ad him a few years as well
 
Well..... no luck :(
Anyone else should still try this idea though - I'm afraid I'm not so graceful with a syphon hose.
I suppose this just goes with the territory of having a pistol shrimp in there. I have to say though, he's pretty cool and I still love him - mostly.
This (the shrimp/goby combo) is actually one of the main reasons I set up the smaller tank - the new one is a pistol-free-environment where corals can live out their lives peacefully on the sand bed if they so choose.
 
What species/variety of pistol is it? I have this little guy:

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He's probably an inch, tops. I can't imagine him stealing a frag mounted on a typical frag plug, and his burrows are probably too small for it anyways.

Too bad about the coral loss - chalk it up to nature. I'm sure stuff like this happens on the real reef all the time.
 
I've always wanted to observe the alpheid/goby interaction, but it has its drawbacks; I'm sorry to see you lost such a cool coral, I was hoping it would have a happy ending.
 
Success!!

Success!!

Success!!!
Thanks to Justin for a bit of encouragement :) :)
I went ahead and took stuff out and dismantled the burrow - and found my little frag!
Yay :lolspin:
Now I have it sitting inside a plastic cap (from a gallon jug of tea), which is rubber-banded down to the frag rack. It looks pretty safe from snails - and I think I'll go ahead and re-banish the urchin until next week when all the little frags go into the new tank :)
Poor Mr. Urchin.... just don't trust him.
 
der_wille_zur_macht said:
What species/variety of pistol is it? I have this little guy:

shrimpgobies.png


He's probably an inch, tops. I can't imagine him stealing a frag mounted on a typical frag plug, and his burrows are probably too small for it anyways.

Too bad about the coral loss - chalk it up to nature. I'm sure stuff like this happens on the real reef all the time.
Click to expand...

Yes - the tiger pistol w/ a YWG.
He's really quite interesting :)
This particular frag was only on a small piece of a frag plug (I asked for it this way specifically, because it's going on branch rock in the new tank - didn't want a big ugly plug). It got knocked off the frag rack by a cerith snail.

That said..... I have made the mistake in the past of putting things too close to his area - he took a large plug - the 1.5" size out of the hole in the rock and used it for building material. He also clipped a bunch of featherduster worms (the small colony kind) to use for building materials. Now I don't put anything under 3 inches closer than 6 inches to his entrances and exits :)
 
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