pistol shrimp

[ajbang]

do pistol shrimps eat hermit crabs? I just saw him take one of the hermit crabs hostage into the burrow…

 

[ziggy]

shouldn't. how small was the hermit? Was it in it's shell?

Sure it's a pistol and not a mantis?

 

[ajbang]

pretty small it was in a cerith shell - maybe it took it for decoration - yep it's a tiger pistol shrimp - it's paired with my yellow watchman goby - when i put nori on the sanded the goby will take a bite out of it and bring it back to burrow to give to the shrimp… pretty cool to watch them in action…

 

[jrbass]

My Tiger has drug snails and coral frags into his den and also killed and ate a sea hare I had. He is cool and love to watch him but there are days where if I could catch him he would be gone. I fagged a bunch of pulsing xenia and had it on plugs sitting in egg crate on sand bed and the next morning all of the frags were ripped from their plugs. now I have xenia growing out of his cave.