pistol/goby symbios

[josie]

the tiger pistol shrimp is here!!!





got a yellow watchman fiew days ago too.. I'll see if they get along.. or if the shrimp will choose the blue-spoted!

[josie]

found a cool video explaining how the claw works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONQlTMUYCW4

[SeaSerpant]

How big is your tank? The bigger the tank the harder it will be for them to notice eachother.

I got a Yasha goby a few weeks before the pistol shrimp. I put the shrimp as near to the yasha as a could. It took about a day before they became a trio! It's interesting to watch, i never see more than 2 of them at a time. If my yasha is out then one shrimp is out and if another shrimp tries to come out the yasha pushes him back in. Then if more than one shimp is out the other shrimp pushes him back in.
It's funny to watch.

Hope this helps
SeaSerpant

[bkelly]

My pistol shrimp took over my watchman gobys cave and booted him out -had it a few months now, today I had a small peppermint shrimp die and after watching the above video got me thinking it was maybe the pistol shrimp who killed it - I rarely see the pistol shrimp but do feed the cave and hear him click some times. cool guy he chased out a nasty worm today clicking all the way.

[josie]

saw the blue-spotted in the pistol shrimp cave yesterday

bkelly: sad that you pistol may have kill the peppermint maybe it's hungry... you could put some food near the cave to feed it?

[Gaffer]

I had my pistol shrimol eat my sexy shrimp. I was leary about it, but made sure the pistol was well fed.

He has been banished to the basement tank for now.

Andrew