Can you keep pistol shrimp and peppermint shrimp together?
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Catpicklesdog
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
I do. I currently have a pistol shrimp living with a cleaner shrimp, two peppermints, a sexy shrimp and a lobster!
They may not be recommended but I haven't had a problem. They've only recently gone into the big tank (182gals) but for the last year (ish) the sexy and the pistol have been living in a 30 gal with a baby Banggai and a Randall's shrimp goby with absolutely no problems.
They may not be recommended but I haven't had a problem. They've only recently gone into the big tank (182gals) but for the last year (ish) the sexy and the pistol have been living in a 30 gal with a baby Banggai and a Randall's shrimp goby with absolutely no problems.
The pistol may try to take a strike at some if he isn't fed enough.
What type of pistol are you talking about? Some get about an inch while others aren't uncommon to be seen 3+
What type of pistol are you talking about? Some get about an inch while others aren't uncommon to be seen 3+
Catpicklesdog
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
That'll be why none of mine attack each other.......
My name is CPD and I'm an overfeeder!!!
Are you guys referring to the pistol shrimp that actually have a claw evolved to make a small "blast?" from like heated water/air from compression or something that stuns prey? I saw something about a shrimp like that on the discovery channel/animal planet... they said its not uncommon for them to fire their claw and end up breaking the glass in a tank? Perhaps its a case of mistaken identity, just wondering!
That is the one. However, breaking hte glass of the tank, no. You would be thinking of a mantis shrimp.
Catpicklesdog
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
When mine was in the smaller tank, it was quite often. I could be upstairs (the tank is downstairs) I could hear him!
Now he's in the bigger tank, the noise seems louder, but he doesn't do it as often - yet!
Now he's in the bigger tank, the noise seems louder, but he doesn't do it as often - yet!
from what
i've read, a pistol shrimp fires it's claw to stun its dinner. then the shrimp eats the fish.
i've read, a pistol shrimp fires it's claw to stun its dinner. then the shrimp eats the fish.
Catpicklesdog
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
You are correct
That's how they survive in the wild. I've seen the video clip of one stunning a cleaner shrimp.
However
In our tanks, all the inhabitants get a regular supply of food, meaning that they don't have to hunt for it (apart from certain species such as dragonets and in my case my sleeper goby
). That is also why a lot of critters lose there wild abilities such as cleaner shrimp- they don't tend to "clean" as much as they would in the wild as the get all they need from us.