are these safe my friend asked me. he said they were noisy
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pistol shrimp
- Thread starter reeferwanabe
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they are noisy and are "safe" in the sense they won't eat your reef. If a small fish or invert is dumb enough to "walk" into the pistol - it may stun / kill it.
The symbiotic relationship between the goby and pistol is typically found in the pacific. The carribbean pistol that typically hitches in aquacultured LR - will not partner with a goby. Hard to say whether that pistol is "reef" safe - for example it may take a snail or hermit.
Of course I would define the hammer-type mantis from the carribean as "reef safe" beyond a penchant for eating crabs, snails and maybe a shrimp or two.
Here's some video of a pistol attacking a cleaner shrimp
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eKPrGxB1Kzc
I think the producer was pretty dumb to waste a $30 cleaner like that - but whatever films I guess.
The symbiotic relationship between the goby and pistol is typically found in the pacific. The carribbean pistol that typically hitches in aquacultured LR - will not partner with a goby. Hard to say whether that pistol is "reef" safe - for example it may take a snail or hermit.
Of course I would define the hammer-type mantis from the carribean as "reef safe" beyond a penchant for eating crabs, snails and maybe a shrimp or two.
Here's some video of a pistol attacking a cleaner shrimp
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eKPrGxB1Kzc
I think the producer was pretty dumb to waste a $30 cleaner like that - but whatever films I guess.
