pistol shrimp hitchhiker

Hey all. I bought a tiger pistol shrimp for my watchman goby a little while ago and now i just noticed i have another little one living in a hole in a piece of live rock. I see him at night in the hole and I even put a piece of mysis next to the hole and watch him come out and grab it. i cant get a picture of it but i found one online that looks exactly like it. i just wanna know if anybody has any info on this kind of pistol shrim like how big they get and if they pair up with gobys. Thanks, Tyler

 

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Its a tiger pistol? Is that the picture of it? Liveaquaria.com has good info on different types of pistols.

 

thats not a picture of the tiger pistol, thats a picture of the hitchhiker i got. but i also just got a tiger pistol a little bit befor i noticed the hitchhiker. im trying to find a name or any info on the one in the picture

 

I was researching it more and it looks like its a pistol that can pair up with gobys and might get to be 3" tops. Hope this helps some.

 

cool thanks, Im just hoping when he gets bigger it doesnt fight with my tiger pistol. did you see a name for it? ive been looking for a while and i just saw one site called it a green banded snapping shrimp

 

I'm actually researching I love pistols so this caught my attention and now need to find out LOL;D

 

What ever type of shrimp it is, it is very cool. Love those kind of hitch-hikers. The coloration makes me think some type of commensal shrimp, try googling " commensal shrimp and you might get lucky with an ID. Far too many different kinds of shrimp to even guess. Very cool though

 

So I was looking it up more. Try looking up this scientific name: Alpheus parvirostris

I think he belongs to the genus: Alpheus.

Here is a link of the wikipedia site for the Genus: Alpheus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpheus_(genus)

I'll keep looking around for ya.

 

Thanks for the help. I like pistol shrimp alot too so i was pretty excited when i saw him. as soon as my lights go out it sounds like my tanks cracking all over between both of them snapping