Pistol Shrimp

[guri]

wanna get Pistol Shrimp for my yasha goby but have already cleaner shrimps sexy shrimps and other ornamental shrimp it will be ok to add Pistol Shrimp or he will try to kill others any suggestions? thanks

 

[Imbarrie]

I have had a pistol shrimp with cleaner shrimp and sexy shrimp.
Everyone got along fine in my 75.
Get a small Randall's pistol shrimp and you will be fine.

 

[NYC Joe]

I've had a tiny tiger pistol who grew up to be pretty big.
Had this guy with a cleaner for about 2 years.
No problem at all.

Cleaner stays in the mid of the tank. Pistol stays on the bottom. With a network of caves. With a Randall's goby.

All is well.

 

[Tranquil201]

I also have a tiger pistol for about 2 years with a yellow watch man goby.. I also have two cleaners and he never bothers anyone.. They are great additions always fun to watch

 

[Reef Fixations]

I have had Bluespot Bullseye pistols, Japanese Pistols and Randall's island pistols in tanks with peppermints, skunks and bloods and never had an issue. I paired all of them with Yashia Gobies as well. All combinations were held in 18x18x18" cubes so basically about the size of a 24g aquapod more or less. I only ever had issues with blood shrimp killing skunks or skunks killing galapagos shrimp. I never even had an issue with any of them during feeding times when other ornamental shrimp passed very close to the pistol's den. I've never had them with my sexy, bumble bee or galapagos shrimp nor my pom pom crabs. Feel free to call me at 2012458599 if I can help out at all in your search anytime between 930am & 930pm.

Best of luck

 

[Bry17nyc]

lol funny i was about to post a thread asking the same exact question

Thinking about gettin a pistol shirmp aswell but already have a cleaner shrimp on a 90g

sticking to this thread .....

 

[shark32]

+1 on the Randall's pistol...he bothers no one in my 75 and I have two small skunk cleaner shrimp and two peppermint shrimp...he basically stays in/around his cave...very cool to watch indeed!!

 

[thirty5]

Well this is helping me out, since I want to get a pistol and goby

 

[Reef Fixations]

Careful with your rimless Anthony; prawns gobies can be jumpers especially if they startled. Luckily mine have only jumped into the adjoining cube and yashias will school as opposed to others that r territorial and will fight. At least mine never fought.

 

[thirty5]

Careful with your rimless Anthony; prawns gobies can be jumpers especially if they startled. Luckily mine have only jumped into the adjoining cube and yashias will school as opposed to others that r territorial and will fight. At least mine never fought.

That is why I am hoping to pair up with shrimp, and they will stay at bottom of tank

 

[shark32]

My pistol shrimp and blue spotted watchman were purchased separately... but within a couple of days they paired up with each other and have been best buds since...my goby has never come near the top of the tank though...even when he is eating the most he will come up is like 3 inches from his cave...and when he gets startled, he jets back into his hole...they are a great addition to a tank..and the best thing with the Randall's pistol is is that they stay so small...my kids love when Clicker (my shrimp) comes out and starts to rearrange his holes....it's very cool to watch

 

[Reef Fixations]

I said that wrong...

Some can be jumpers. Yashias and yellow watchmans have jumped before just by me putting my hands in my holding tanks. Watchmans never made it out because of my eurobracing on that tank. One watchman even made it into my overflow.

I have a red margin prawn goby and the highest he ever goes up in my DT is maybe 5 inches for food.

I dunno if it's because Yashias are very similiar to firefish or what it is but it surprised me when it happened.

I agree about Randall's are nice for their smaller size.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Please, nobody tell my pistol shrimp about my cleaner shrimp.

 

[Bry17nyc]

I said that wrong...

Some can be jumpers. Yashias and yellow watchmans have jumped before just by me putting my hands in my holding tanks. Watchmans never made it out because of my eurobracing on that tank. One watchman even made it into my overflow.

The same exact thing happened to me a couple of days ago...my yellow watchman goby lives all the way accross from the overflow and it dissapeared for a couple of days....when it was time to change the filter socks guess what i found in it....YELLOW WATCHMAN GOBY..i was shocked it was there for more than 3 days with all of the micro bubbles and dirt and it survived