My pistol and goby pair are like underground soldier

[MakoMan36]

I bought a yellow watchman goby and a candy pistol shrimp 2 weeks ago from two different LFS hoping they will paired up. Never owned a pistol shrimp before only seeing them paired up from other reefer is kinda cool, so anyway the first couple days that they haven't found each other the shrimp then dug a hole and stayed in there quietly the goby was on the other side mind his own business. About 3 to 4 days later the goby finally found the shrimp and lived in hole the shrimp made and it was cool looking at it .About 2 days later all of a sudden the goby start to venturing out and that's when thing start to get out of hand, the shrimp then follow the goby and start digging everywhere the goby's at, they making a mess on the sand bed and flipping the frags on the sand 10 times his size.The shrimp is making tunnel and digging 24/7 wherever the goby decide to rest, My tank look cloudy most the time it's a chaos. Anyone who have experience with them, will the shrimp stop digging after awhile or if I get the goby out will he stop? The shrimp is a pain to catch his kinda tricky.

[MakoMan36]

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[jamescstein]

my shrimp and gobie trio lives in a 7 inch long piece of 3/4" PVC pipe with 45 elbows on each end.

[NYfishies]

Oh gosh this post has me laughing.

 

Both of the Tiger Pistol Shrimp we have owned have been absolute BULLDOZERS. They will never stop. We love it. Every morning you wake up to a new tunnel system.

 

The key is to have your rockscape on the glass and then sand around. You might as well kiss any coral on the sand bed good bye.

 

Let them be for a week or 2. Eventually he will build out his base tunnel system and the sand will settle. We never have cloudy water or anything like that.

[MakoMan36]

Oh gosh this post has me laughing.

 

Both of the Tiger Pistol Shrimp we have owned have been absolute BULLDOZERS. They will never stop. We love it. Every morning you wake up to a new tunnel system.

 

The key is to have your rockscape on the glass and then sand around. You might as well kiss any coral on the sand bed good bye.

 

Let them be for a week or 2. Eventually he will build out his base tunnel system and the sand will settle. We never have cloudy water or anything like that.

 

It's fun to watch them paired up and do their natural thing at first but thing start to get old and I'm getting ticked off now, I'll wait another week and see how it goes. I always thought they'll make a tunnel and done with it but I'm wrong.

[cruiZe]

as NYfishies said... Your rock is directly on the glass right? Sometimes I don't see mine for days at a time , they're always underground. and yes the pistol is always digging, it's really good for your sand.

 

I would get in the habit of gently vacuuming your sand to clean it up - that will reduce the silt storms.

 

I also don't like having my new frags burred, but I got a small frag rack to prevent that. Big corals like my tongue and welso will clean themselves off just fine.

 

Cool pic by the way!! Yours look just like mine!

[cruiZe]

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[reeferbrownies]

My LFS had a yellow watchman a guy brought in, his fins had defects and he had skin damage. Bought a $10 pistol shrimp from another store. Before I went on a 3 week vacation they pistol shrimp had shooed the goby away and I had scaped the sand to a flat slope.Came back and my sand bed turned into a mountain range. But I think that once they had finished their tunnels the won't do much other than upkeep them to prevent the entrances from caving