pistol shrimp and goby

[dzekunoi]

I'm wondering if shrimp goby and pistol shrimp pair is safe to add to a seahorse tank?

 

Also, do you guys know if goby/shrimp pairing is specie specific or not? Say, does Randail goby pairs only with randail pistol shrimp etc.?

How hard is to make them pair?

 

I'm a bit confuzzeled

[steveoutlaw]

I'll join in with the cofuzzlement. And, I'll add one more question.......can you keep these pairs in a nano???

[NRehman]

Inna,

Okay..someones got to do it...

BIG MISTAKE. Quick, send them over to me for safe keeping!

 

In lieu of that bit... here is some more info on seahorse tankmates:

 

http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/tankmates.shtml

Edited February 13, 2007 by NRehman

[dzekunoi]

Inna,

Okay..someones got to do it...

BIG MISTAKE. Quick, send them over to me for safe keeping!

 

In lieu of that bit... here is some more info on seahorse tankmates:

 

http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/tankmates.shtml

:wink:

 

Thanks Nadir! The problem is - they do not have pistol shrimps listed.

 

And - I do not have them yet

[martin]

I tried a pistol shrimp combo, the must of got a divorce or something. One went to the sump, then to the refugium and one was never seen again-just a pile of rocks neatly stacked.

[davelin315]

I'd be more concerned about the sea horse eating the pistol shrimp. Sea horses, despite the tiny "looking" mouth, can really suck in quite a large shrimp. I've had them before and watched them devour shrimp that were as big as their heads by sucking them in and snapping them into pieces as they were sucked in. They have a powerful "gulp" and I think that they'd make a meal out of almost any shrimp in the long run.

[rocko918]

I think a pistol will actually snap at the seahorses. The horses will not bother the shrimp but the claw of the shrimp could really hurt the horses.

 

I would not do it.

[dzekunoi]

Then I will not do it :(

 

I have a couple of very small peppermints in the tank and horses do not pay any attention to them.

[NRehman]

Inna,

There is a forum for tankmates in the site I sent you.

Ciao!

[geofloors]

I don't know about keeping these with seahorses but I doubt a nano will do because you need a fairly deep substrate for these shrimp to dig in. I have one in my 280g. It's a tiger pistol and originally it was paired up with a Tangaroa goby. One day I came home to find the Tangaroa was kicked out and a Wheeleri was paired up with the shrimp. I also have an Aurora and a Randall shrimp gobies but neither of them have tried to pair up (yet). I wouldn't worry about the seahorse eating the shrimp because the shrimp never comes out of the burrow unless the goby is protecting the opening. Very fun to watch this combo. Just be sure your rock work is stable because they create all kinds of caverns in the sand. JMO

 

 

George

Edited February 13, 2007 by geofloors

[SDBDRZ]

I have a pistol shrimp/goby combo in a 22g gallon tank so I guess you could consider it a nano but the only other fish in the tank is a pajama cardinal. I set the tank up with the goby/shrimp as the focal point so I wont be adding any other fish. Having said that I probably would not put them in anything smaller than the 22g I have them in. No idea on the seahorse.

 

They are very fun to watch.

[Sugar Magnolia]

Steve - I've kept a Yasha Haze goby/Randall's pistol in my 2.5 gallon nano. The pistol recently died, so the yasha is now by itself until I get a new pistol. The pistol will make quite a bit of a mess with the sand bed and likes to have some crushed rock/rubble to move around. I think my sand bed is about 1" - 1 1/2" or so, and was constantly being moved about.