10g bowfront tank/34g cube

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

No swiping allowed guard frog on duty

you need a "beware of frog" sign for the tank baby

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by fishytime

you need a "beware of frog" sign for the tank baby

Good idea

So for the life of me I could not get a decent pic of my (technically Doug's since I bought it for his as part of his Christmas present) candycane pistol shrimp but out of my millon attempts, here are the best pic's. Added pointy arrows to show where the pistol is.

The right side of the pistol's body just above the yasha


The front of the pistol beside the yasha


His pincher claw


His tail


Yasha tucking in for the night

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

So for the life of me I could not get a decent pic of my (technically Doug's since I bought it for his as part of his Christmas present) candycane pistol shrimp but out of my millon attempts, here are the best pic's. Added pointy arrows to show where the pistol is.

You're just lucky your life did NOT depend on it

I find it very difficult to get the camera to focus on something tiny when there are other objects nearby that attract the focusing feature of our digital cameras. Perhaps a different lens would solve this for you so I vote you go out and spend several hundred on a new lens just to take pics of your peppermint pistol shrimp so you can post better pics of it for your fellow Canreefers

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

so I vote you go out and spend several hundred on a new lens just to take pics of your peppermint pistol shrimp so you can post better pics of it for your fellow Canreefers

shhhhh.....dont give her any ideas.....she already went out and spent several hundred recently on a new nikon so she can take betters pics of her fish!....mind you, a good macro lens would take a sweet pic of my corals

[lastlight]

I saw a few pairs of these guys last night for sale... anything special they need requirements-wise? They seem pretty fascinating to me but I'm worried they'd hole up somewhere not easily seen. Be like taking some cash and jamming it into your rockwork for kicks...

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by lastlight

I saw a few pairs of these guys last night for sale... anything special they need requirements-wise? They seem pretty fascinating to me but I'm worried they'd hole up somewhere not easily seen. Be like taking some cash and jamming it into your rockwork for kicks...

not something i would count on seeing all the time, i got lucky he choose his den right in front of the tank minus a bit of digging or during feeding time i dont see him.at first i never saw him it took awhile.

i have a mantis in the sump and a pistol in the display between the two i have a good metronome hehehep

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by lastlight

I saw a few pairs of these guys last night for sale... anything special they need requirements-wise? They seem pretty fascinating to me but I'm worried they'd hole up somewhere not easily seen. Be like taking some cash and jamming it into your rockwork for kicks...

Potentially it could be very much like stuffing money into your rock, especially in a tank as big as yours. No real special requirements, just a sand bed. My yasha eats mysis, Arcti pods, Cyclop-eeze and I think he eats the .5mm pellets

Originally Posted by reefwars

hey laurie to get my pistol out what i do is lay a bunch of rubble right next to their den then push sand into his lair ....mine goes right into clean mode and pushes the sand out but with the rubble blocking the hole he has to literally come out and push or pick up the rubble and move it.

The pistol did come right out a few times, once when the camera refused to focus, once when I gave up and had just put the camera down and once just after the battery died

[reefwars]

hey laurie to get my pistol out what i do is lay a bunch of rubble right next to their den then push sand into his lair ....mine goes right into clean mode and pushes the sand out but with the rubble blocking the hole he has to literally come out and push or pick up the rubble and move it.

mine was quite secluded at first but after me feeding him so many times hes out and about all the time now never leaves his den but he comes out into the open about 6 inches.

my pistol hosts 2 gobys an orange spot and a red striped goby its usually the red who has him but once in a while he will leave and then the orange moves on in.....the red always comes back because hes more aggressive

[fishoholic]

Got two new gobies but dirty glass so I'll take pic's later

[noirsphynx]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

Got two new gobies but dirty glass so I'll take pic's later

Awesome, what'd get? Can't wait to see pics. I gobies.