Thanks guys. I don't know if I still have a pair of them. I did when I took the pic. :biggrin:
I find them to be very delicate and wimpy fish. When I first get them from the store, they usually have sunken stomachs probably because they don't compete for food very well in an open tank without hiding places. Once in my tank, they will either die (disappear and eaten by a predator) before they get a chance to fatten up or they'll settle and start getting fat and then disappear all of a sudden. In my tank, I have a serpent star, 4 BTA's, and some large hitch-hiking crabs which any one of those predators would probably be happy to catch and eat a little wimpy fish like this when it is sleeping. This is why I think they *might* do better with a pistol shrimp to guard it when it is sleeping. :lol: But they don't pair up with all pistol shrimps so you'd have to get the exact right kind.
In a tank with no predators, they should do fine. Mine seldomly come out during the day. They are scared and hide until feeding time when they will dart in and out of their caves really fast. They come out more when my Halides are off and my dim 55W PC's is on. When its dimmer, they'll get braver and stay out in the open longer than when it is full daylight.
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