Pistol Shrimp

I bought a candy pistol shrimp on Sunday to buddy up with my goby. I haven't heard or seen him since. Can everyone please send some good thoughts this way to make sure he is ok? He was a tiny little guy and I made sure when I brought him home that he made it to the bottom of the tank and into some rocks without anyone bugging him so I hope he is ok!:-/

 

Im sure its in there somewhere

 

My friends only comes out at night, in the morning he see's tracks from it.....

 

he still pretty new i wouldnt worry about it. i didnt hear from mine for a couple of weeks after i put him in

 

Probably will hear it before you see it...

re: (posted here many times...)




In fact you may never see it again.

I am pretty certain I have had one in tank for years from the "popping" noise I
hear frequently (mostly at night)...but have never seen it.

May also explain couple of "unexplained" shrimp losses.


:-/

 

Yes it is the one from John's. Not the really tinyone but the next tiny one.

OmarD--So now you are telling me with that youtube that he is going to eat my cleaner shrimp. I thought he would eat the little bugs not the big bugs. He was cheaper than my cleaner shrimp....just great. I guess I will wait to see what happens! Will he eat my snails and Hermies?

 

he's not going to eat your cleaner shrimp. LOL He'll be fine.

 

normally when shrimp/crabs are first added to a new tank, they tend to molt - so he is prob just hiding somewhere safe to do so.

 

A pistol shrimp will only snap when threatened or hunting so if you haven't heard it snap, it doesn't mean that it's "gone". Also, these shrimp are very shy so until/unless it pairs up with your goby, you may never see it.