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Jimroth's Big Ol' Tank
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My local connection for pistol shrimp crapped out. I made it a few more days before I gave into temptation and plunked down $24 for a tiger pistol shrimp at Ab Fish. When you got it, you can charge for it!
Well it could hardly have gone any better! I carefully drip-acclimated the shrimp, and placed it smack in the middle of the tank. The shrimp immediately began to dig in. Soon it had the beginnings of a burrow. The goby lasted all of about 15 minutes before he abandoned his dug out burrow behind the rock to join his new partner. It was like a compulsion. They immediately set up the customary communication, the shrimp keeping contact with his antennae, the goby eventually backing its tail into the burrow. All the while, the shrimp keeps moving out the gravel and rearranging things. It's pretty entertaining.
Well it could hardly have gone any better! I carefully drip-acclimated the shrimp, and placed it smack in the middle of the tank. The shrimp immediately began to dig in. Soon it had the beginnings of a burrow. The goby lasted all of about 15 minutes before he abandoned his dug out burrow behind the rock to join his new partner. It was like a compulsion. They immediately set up the customary communication, the shrimp keeping contact with his antennae, the goby eventually backing its tail into the burrow. All the while, the shrimp keeps moving out the gravel and rearranging things. It's pretty entertaining.
Do you know anything about the little candy-cane guys (A. Randalli)? I was going to add a couple of those and a couple of hi-blackfin gobies.
He's sure industrious. There was a new burrow in a better spot this morning, and he was carrying loads of gravel right over the goby's back!
The candy pistols are good diggers but nowhere near the tigers. We have one with our yasha pair right now in our 12g and he has burrowed out a good bit but now he seems pretty satisfied with it. They stay much smaller than the tigers but are good shrimp.
Ummmmmm.....the brain receded and died when I was on vacation. Tough year in Reefville. The blenny is doing fine though.
This has happened to me all too often.
Here's the shrimp and goby. this is just the first pic I was able to get, I've gotten some others since. I added some little Hawaiian hermits and the shrimp snapped at one when he tried to enter the burrow. I added a single firefish today for some midwater action. I was watching the biocube for so long, my wife asked if I was watching "Shrimpfeld!"
Great mantis shrimp show on Nat Geo TV last night, "killer shrimp!" Featuring Dr. Roy Caldwell. Super hi def prawnography!
Ordered a couple of candy cane pistols and a couple more shrimp gobies for the tank. Should be fun! Also a couple of bumblebee shrimp, I love those guys.
When I bought the butterflyfish pair, I added in a pom Pom crab for the cube. I acclimated it carefully, but after I added it I never saw it again. I figured it was lost or the goby ate it. But no, yesterday it showed up in a little cave, waving its remaining tiny anemone.
Ordered a couple of candy cane pistols and a couple more shrimp gobies for the tank. Should be fun! Also a couple of bumblebee shrimp, I love those guys.
When I bought the butterflyfish pair, I added in a pom Pom crab for the cube. I acclimated it carefully, but after I added it I never saw it again. I figured it was lost or the goby ate it. But no, yesterday it showed up in a little cave, waving its remaining tiny anemone.
I'm putting them in the cube. Do you see any potential problems there? I'd never see them in the big reef.
That was the point I was going for, I love them in my 12g but I could never imagine them in a very large tank. I have also heard they like to go after clams (ancedotal have not heard it anywhere else). Mine are fun to watch in the 12g and are very active come feeding time.