Shrimp Goby Q's

[happyclam]

I want to eventually have a shrimp goby/prawn pair in my 135 gal soft coral reef aquarium. I have a couple questions 1st though to make sure everything is good before I buy them.

- What types/brands of sands should I use that are most conduicive to burrow building? I was thinking about using CaribSeas dry Special Grade Reef sand, plus some crushed coral gravel and some 1-3" dried LR ruble pieces.

- Can you reccomend a nice & easy species of goby and shrimp that would pair up?

- Will the goby and shrimp pair up even if they never were paired earlier?

 

[Elevate]

I have a Yasha Hase/Randall's pair that I just got, I hear it's best when you buy them as a pair or at least introduce them at the same time. I buried a 8 or 10 inch long x 1in diameter piece of spaflex with a 45 degree on the end sticking out of the sand. You could use hard PVC instead of spaflex, it's just what I had laying around. I put them in there and they seem happy. With the Yasha it can be kind of an expensive pair but I think they are really cool.