pistol shrimp without a fish?

[Anonymous]

My yasha goby bit the dust. I moved some rocks around in my nano cube and I guess the fish jumped into the overflow...he jumped through a quarter inch slit and landed in the one spot where the sponge filter sits out of the water instead of in the sump area where he would have survived...four square inches of space where a fish can die and the damn fish found that one spot! :x

Anyway, his randalls shrimp goby is still alive and clicking, but I can't get any food to him...the burrow entrances that the fish used to keep open have all closed and when I try to open them back up and put food at the entrance, the shrimp doesn't take it. He used to come out and eat with the fish, but now he just stays underground all the time.

how long can he live without a fish...no stores have another one right now and I have to wait for someone to order one.

 

[Anonymous]

I have them without fish all the time. I have also never actually seen one pistol shrimp and goby pair eat before, but I have had them for a long time so they're doing something.

The other pair I own, with a yasha hase I only ever see the goby eat, never the shrimp.

I wouldn't worry too much.

HTH

 

[Anonymous]

I have them without fish all the time. I have also never actually seen one pistol shrimp and goby pair eat before, but I have had them for a long time so they're doing something.

The other pair I own, with a yasha hase I only ever see the goby eat, never the shrimp.

I wouldn't worry too much.

HTH

I read that there was no evidence of the fish helping the shrimp get food, but I clearly observed many times (like at least 100 times) the fish taking pellets and then spitting them back at the shrimp before turning and going back to get more pellets as I put them in.

I'm 100% sure that the yasha goby was "feeding" the shrimp.

That's why I'm worried about the shrimp with no goby and no way to get food in such a small tank. 10g only.

 

[Anonymous]

It may be with the lights off the shrimp will take food more readily. Just a hunch.

 

[pcardone]

my guess is if its hungry, it will find food. I have a pistol shrimp for 4 years now and I rarely see it. try throwing a cube of prime reef or something heavy at night.