Does it matter which type of pistol shrimp ?

asherah · #1 12-11-2007, 10:10 PM

I want to get a pistol shrimp for my orange spotted goby now that he has laid claim to a cave of his own.

Does it matter which kind of pistol I get ?

thanks alot
asherah

untamed · #2 12-11-2007, 10:39 PM

You might pickup this month's issue of Coral magazine. Their feature this month is on the goby/shrimp partnership and how difficult it is to replicate in an aquarium.

I think their advice is to find a shrimp with similar colour to the goby, then hope it works out. They advise that it probably won't. One or the other may become a meal.

asherah · #3 12-12-2007, 12:15 AM

why would they become a meal ? Do they eat them sometimes?

asherah

asherah · #4 12-12-2007, 12:18 AM

by the way, where can I get that magazine ?

Rumika · #5 12-12-2007, 01:50 AM

I have a Yellow watchmen goby and a pistol shrimp and they get along very well. They are not even close to the same color and have been together for about 6 months or so.

Black Phantom · #6 12-12-2007, 03:22 AM

I have an Orange spotted gobie as well. He is housed with a skunk shrimp and a scarlet shrimp.
He ignores them both but they chase him around to clean him now and then.

asherah · #7 12-12-2007, 03:40 AM

ROFL that's too funny.
haha

asherah

Whatigot · #8 02-28-2008, 01:33 PM

I've had two pairs of symbiotic shrimp and gobies, both of them I looked and looked until I found ones that had been wild caught and already showed signs of a partnership.

untamed · #9 02-28-2008, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by asherah

why would they become a meal ? Do they eat them sometimes?

asherah

Quote:

Originally Posted by asherah

by the way, where can I get that magazine ?

Yes, If they don't get along you end up with only one of them.and don't presume to know which will eat the other.

Coral magazine is mainly sold at LFS.