Piston Shrimp

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Originally Posted by Willow

ive read about plenty of cracked tanks from them so it's probably worth worrying about.

From pistol shrimp? (I never heard that before.) I have heard of large mantis shrimp breaking glass because they actualy club or stab their prey, but pistol shrimp are different. They stun their prey with sound and don't actualy contact anything to make that sound. That click is done only with their one claw. (Kind of like when you snap your fingers.)

I have a bullseye pistol that clicks quite frequently in my reef aquarium and it lives a symbiotic life with a sleeper goby.

If you are pretty sure it's a pistol shrimp, why not just get a goby buddy to live with and keep it?

It's realy amazing to watch them interact.

I think they're harmless, but I could be wrong I guess.