Pistol Shrimp ID Needed

[jejton]

Can anyone ID the pistol shrimp for me? I can't get a decent pic so I'll try to give a good description. Its about 3" long. The body is mostly light orange. The legs are bluish ( at least the bottom 1/2's ). The most conspicuous marking is on its carapace, about half way down. Its a red circle with an outer white ring. Any ideas?

 

[NYreefNoob]

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=497+525&siteid=23&pCatId=525

http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_1...ategory=4&category_search=63&root_parent_id=4

 

[DevIouS]

Like this?

 

[jejton]

Bingo!

 

[DevIouS]

Alpheus sp.

:lobster:

 

[jejton]

So what's your experience with them been, if any? Yes I know I can google info but I'd like some first hand accounts. Can it be whats killed my porcelain crabs?

 

[DevIouS]

I don't have experience with this particular species but some Pistols will possibly eat inverts or fish.

 

[reefman]

u may hear a loud snap pop sound every once awhile

 

[jejton]

Yeah I do hear it but its more like a click. At first I thought a fish was knocking the heater against the glass but then I remembered my heater is in the sump.

 

[Pedro Nuno Ferreira]

Can anyone ID the pistol shrimp for me? I can't get a decent pic so I'll try to give a good description. Its about 3" long. The body is mostly light orange. The legs are bluish ( at least the bottom 1/2's ). The most conspicuous marking is on its carapace, about half way down. Its a red circle with an outer white ring. Any ideas?

Hi jejton

Has shown above its an Alpheus soror or Bullseye pistol shrimp, one of the most beautiful pistol shrimps.

Here you can read some more about it and some more here and here an image of it from one reliable and well reputed on-line retail sales here in Europe

and below are two photographs of one that I intended to buy in march 2007 for my system, only when I went to collect it, it had been "partially dismantled" by a Enoplometopus occidentalis the Red Hawaiian reef lobster who ripped off its two pinchers/claws...well I don't know if it grew new pinchers/claws, but I do have two Enoplometopus debelius, the debelius reef lobster or polka dot lobster, and it could have been a very bad idea any way to add the Alpheus soror...
Also unlike other Alpheus shrimps, the Alpheus soror does not or hardly ever does associate it self for symbiosis with gobies

Alpheus soror - Bullseye pistol shrimp

bellow my Enoplometopus debelius or debelius reef lobster or polka dot lobster

in the bag eager to leave

immediatly after leaving the bag and before hiding

the second one more than eager to leave the bag in a "I'm gona get you mode:anger2:"...and I only bought it because I thought I had lost the first one

Cheers
Pedro Nuno ;-)

 

[jejton]

Thanks for the links and beautiful lobsters. My pistol shrimp has found a cave of its own but it comes out often enough that I know its still alive and growing. I just hope it doesnt become a problem for my other arthropods.