Tiger Pistol Shrimp

[eww]

Quick question... Do these ever stop digging? Once they have everything set the way they like it do they quit or is it a constant state of change? We are wondering because it creates quite to cloud in our tank almost constantly with the sugar sand substrate under the crushed coral. It has also stacked some areas of the tank up to 4" deep of crushed coral and I'm wondering if this will become a problem area.

 

[returnofsid]

The 2 that I've had never really stopped. Digging is part of how they find food. They constantly eat, so they constantly dig...lol. When it comes to digging their "tunnels," once their home is created, they'll slow down, until they decide to "remodel," or expand their home. Then the digging starts again, with a frenzy. I finally got tired of them always burying corals that were on the sand bed, or tipping them over, or dragging smaller pieces into their tunnel....etc. So, when I swapped from one tank to another, I re-homed the Pistol/Goby pair.

 

[Herefishyfishy]

They are just diggin fools!
The trick to reduce stirring things up is get a smaller shrimp. The candycane pistol shrimp hides a lot more than the tiger and digs less volume due to being tiny...

 

[Myteemouse]

+3 digging fools I have one and it will carry away ANYTHING it can pull or drag to make his/her home bigger
I've found frags and snails as part of tunnels

 

[eww]

Well we have it now and I don't think it would be all that easy to remove it. Tearing the tank apart is just not an option until a last resort although it is doing a fantastic job at it all by itself. It looks like a war zone with trenches and craters.

 

[NWDiver]

I try to look at the bright-side At least the sand is always nice and white!

 

[Xtremedave67]

LOL I love shrimp stories, since my own fiasco LOL

 

[eww]

I try to look at the bright-side At least the sand is always nice and white!

Thats what I'm telling myself as we move EVERYTHING off the sand bed and up onto rcoks.

 

[eww]

LOL I love shrimp stories, since my own fiasco LOL

What was your fiasco Dave? I'm curious now

 

[Xtremedave67]

LOL I found a hitchhiker about 7 weeks after start up, a green mantis shrimp...(I had no Idea what I saw, when I found him)
I just know I watched a rerun of Men in black to ID it.....then when I discovered what it was and what they are capable of. holy crap......and wife swore it was from another planet some mutant bug (she Loathes bugs) LOL.

catching was easy (using soda bottle technique) should ya need to do so FYI ( not being familar with pistol shrimp and baiting???)

 

[slim_jim989]

ya but a mantis shrimp is way different from a pistol shrimp. I have a tiger and hes always digging. It seems like he changes his doors constantly.

 

[eww]

Yep there's only one little corner of the tank left that our hasn't completely dug up. Maybe it would have been a better choice for a larger footprint tank. This only being 36"x15" isn't mush floor space for this.

 

[cephcrazy]

Sorry to hear i know you tried to foresee any issues like this. i hope you can come up with a solution and keep him, that is frustrating for you i'm sure with the sugar sub...

Hmmm... "I like him so much because he is always moving something gives ya something to watch";-) Lol Never would of thought of that with my lava sand and all...Saltwater gotta love it?

 

[iroll253]

If you cant remove him i'd just glue all the corals to the rock like you said. I plan on having a candycane shrimp / yasha goby pair in my nano.

 

[cephcrazy]

Oh yeah so come to find out those two gobies you bought were spawning. So i don't know with the move and all if they still are but i figure will again in the future at least.

 

[eww]

Oh yeah so come to find out those two gobies you bought were spawning. So i don't know with the move and all if they still are but i figure will again in the future at least.

How did you find this out? Did you find eggs after we took them?

 

[cephcrazy]

I think i already told you i had a suspicion they were from their behavior well, I was reading on the thread 38 year old tank, and on the thread he describes all of the same behavior i was seeing as well it said on there that the blue (freckles) on the gobie will get extra bright and they had and the fins will get deep blue/purple wich they did...So mainly from reading that thread and thinking back; it to me anyway has confirmed what i thought and i had done a lot of observing with them.
Although i do wish i had inspected the rock before selling it...So i might have come across to factual before but IMO i think they were, you could watch them read on it or ask Paul B he seems to have a plethora of knowledge on gobies.