Within the next 30 days or so, I will be moving everything from two small tanks to a larger tank. One of the smaller tanks has two pistol shrimp and a ruby crab. All are hard to find, the shrimp are practically never seen. I know that one large pistol shrimp is living in a very large piece of LR. What is the best way to acclimate this/these pistol shrimps that are in rock crevices and cannot be caught.
I know that inverts often require better acclimation methods than, say, damsels, clowns, other hardy fish and corals, but I'll never extract those inverts and the rock is too large to bag, assuming I even have the right rock.
I'll be acclimating these critters to a newly set up and fully cycled tank...water parameters are perfect (and almost exactly the same as the old tanks). I'm thinking of just adding the rock/rocks to the new tank, considering the inverts as hitchhikers. Do you guys think that will work?
I know that inverts often require better acclimation methods than, say, damsels, clowns, other hardy fish and corals, but I'll never extract those inverts and the rock is too large to bag, assuming I even have the right rock.
I'll be acclimating these critters to a newly set up and fully cycled tank...water parameters are perfect (and almost exactly the same as the old tanks). I'm thinking of just adding the rock/rocks to the new tank, considering the inverts as hitchhikers. Do you guys think that will work?
