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Missing any cleaner shrimp lately? :-/

 

nope my C.B. is still hanging out. I think I heard mine clicking again...he must have grown back a claw. I do think that think that I posted where the crab was eating something, was actually a pistol shrimp. I think were two of them..:-/ Now, to get it out.

 

cool info. thanks cuttingras////

 

and omard

 

I have 2 pistols and I think they are the niftiest things in my tank!

 

I'm afraid of mine...sneaky little thing.. I hear it just never shows it's face to me! It knows that when it does it's going bye bye...I like my crabs and snails too much to feed them to a hitchhiker lol

 

Well, I paid for mine. Haven't heard any noises yet even when the nassarius got to close to their holes or when the brittlestar reached into their hole to get their food.

 

Thanks for the info guys. I find it a little weird about the cleaner shrimp. I have a cleaner and a pistol together and they are both living. My pistol doesn't snap to much I would say I only hear him about once a day should I be concerned about my cleaner with the pistol shrimp?

 

For anybody that cares. I had an almost full grown Randalli Pistol Shrimp with my Randall's Goby for about a year.

The pistol NEVER even got close to big enough to be able to stun more than pods.
Tigers + Bulleyes are evil. If you want a peaceful symbiotic pair go for the Randall's Pistol


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