Be Afraid... Be very afraid... OF THE PISTOL SHRIMP!! HA - Page 2

kathywithbirds · 06-23-2007, 06:50 AM

hmmm... I don't have a cleaner shrimp presently...

are they a threat to fish other than their goby buddies?

cheeks69 · 06-23-2007, 08:13 AM

Here is my pair

Dentoid · 06-23-2007, 07:23 PM

OMG!

I'd better tell my cleaner shrimp to stay away from the right side of the tank! I hear my pistol shrimp firing daily, my Watchman goby doesn't seem to be phased. Perhaps he can't hear anymore!

cheeks69 · 06-23-2007, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dentoid

OMG!

I'd better tell my cleaner shrimp to stay away from the right side of the tank! I hear my pistol shrimp firing daily, my Watchman goby doesn't seem to be phased. Perhaps he can't hear anymore!

Have the watchman/pistol bonded ?

Dentoid · 06-23-2007, 08:52 PM

Yea they are bonded. The goby sits outside the burrow and the little pistol just bulldozes away. It's interesting to watch. I don't know what the shrimp fires at? Could it be snails? Hermits?

Robert, BTW your pairs photo is not coming through.

cheeks69 · 06-23-2007, 09:02 PM

I'm not really sure why the one I kept would fire away, maybe it was the Bristle worms I had some big one's in my old tank. I have yet to hear any popping sounds of the 2 I currently keep. Scott that's odd about the photo, I can see it fine

Dentoid · 06-23-2007, 09:12 PM

Huh. I'm getting a little blue box with a question mark inside where the photo should be.

cheeks69 · 06-23-2007, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dentoid

Huh. I'm getting a little blue box with a question mark inside where the photo should be.

Humm that's odd

I'll try to attach it and see if it works.

reefjitsu · 06-23-2007, 10:32 PM

Within the past year, I had a pistol shrimp that took out a damsel that it had lived with for over 3 years. They seemed to get along fine and the pistol popped all the time and never seemed to bother the damsel. Then one day, I hear a pop, look in the tank, and there is the damsel stunned. The fish never recovered.

cheeks69 · 06-24-2007, 07:50 AM

Which sp. did you have reefjitsu ?
I ordered a Randalli from my LFS and instead they received some really large one's from the Caribbean and I refused to purchase them, they looked menacing !

Saltwater Noob · 06-24-2007, 09:23 AM

Great Clip Thanks

reefjitsu · 06-24-2007, 11:29 AM

I am not sure of the species I had. I collected it myself for my temperate water reef tank. I never really bothered to identify it.

Boomer · 06-24-2007, 02:34 PM

Now that was cool

06-23-2007, 06:50 AM	#16 (permalink)
kathywithbirds Social Darwinism victim Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Hood, NJ Posts: 5,938 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Be Afraid... Be very afraid... OF THE PISTOL SHRIMP!! HA hmmm... I don't have a cleaner shrimp presently... are they a threat to fish other than their goby buddies? __________________ (\_/) (\__/) ( . .) (^.^) (")(") (> <) Bunny and Bunnina have worked things out. Bunny was mistaken after all, Bunnina was not having an affair. "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." ~Lin Yutang

06-23-2007, 08:13 AM	#17 (permalink)
cheeks69 Wannabe Guru Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Northeast Posts: 7,388 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Be Afraid... Be very afraid... OF THE PISTOL SHRIMP!! HA Here is my pair __________________ Robert My Cube “A spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.” Albert Einstein

06-23-2007, 09:02 PM	#21 (permalink)
cheeks69 Wannabe Guru Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Northeast Posts: 7,388 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Be Afraid... Be very afraid... OF THE PISTOL SHRIMP!! HA I'm not really sure why the one I kept would fire away, maybe it was the Bristle worms I had some big one's in my old tank. I have yet to hear any popping sounds of the 2 I currently keep. Scott that's odd about the photo, I can see it fine __________________ Robert My Cube “A spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.” Albert Einstein

06-23-2007, 10:32 PM	#24 (permalink)
reefjitsu Plate Coral Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The Magic City Posts: 761 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Be Afraid... Be very afraid... OF THE PISTOL SHRIMP!! HA Within the past year, I had a pistol shrimp that took out a damsel that it had lived with for over 3 years. They seemed to get along fine and the pistol popped all the time and never seemed to bother the damsel. Then one day, I hear a pop, look in the tank, and there is the damsel stunned. The fish never recovered. __________________ You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You got to keep on hoping and cover your ears and go "blah blah blah blah"- Futurama

06-24-2007, 07:50 AM	#25 (permalink)
cheeks69 Wannabe Guru Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Northeast Posts: 7,388 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Be Afraid... Be very afraid... OF THE PISTOL SHRIMP!! HA Which sp. did you have reefjitsu ? I ordered a Randalli from my LFS and instead they received some really large one's from the Caribbean and I refused to purchase them, they looked menacing ! __________________ Robert My Cube “A spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.” Albert Einstein

06-24-2007, 09:23 AM	#26 (permalink)
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06-24-2007, 11:29 AM	#27 (permalink)
reefjitsu Plate Coral Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The Magic City Posts: 761 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Be Afraid... Be very afraid... OF THE PISTOL SHRIMP!! HA I am not sure of the species I had. I collected it myself for my temperate water reef tank. I never really bothered to identify it. __________________ You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You got to keep on hoping and cover your ears and go "blah blah blah blah"- Futurama

06-24-2007, 02:34 PM	#28 (permalink)
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