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34 | 41.46% |
| I have tried in the past, never worked, so I gave up |
  
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5 | 6.10% |
| Yes but I never see either of them now |
  
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5 | 6.10% |
| Yes successfully did it with a pistol shrimp with a Yellow Watchman Goby |
  
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17 | 20.73% |
| Yes successfully did it with another kind of shrimp and another type of goby. |
  
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21 | 25.61% |
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#1
01-25-2012, 05:29 PM
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I have had a pair for over a year now and they are always together. I got them when I had a fowlr but now that I have added corals and my sandbed is covered with chalices and zoas, the pistol shrimp is starting to drive me nuts. I wake up in the morning or get home from work to discover them burried or pulled into the shrimps burrows. I started to stick pieces of rock to try and block off the entrances to a few of the ones nearest to the chalices but it always finds a way around them, lol.
 
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01-25-2012, 08:30 PM
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I had a Randall's goby and tiger pistol pair for 3 years until the goby jumped last week. Don't worry about them being holed up, they won't starve. I rarely saw my goby take food when I fed the tank and yet he was the fattest bastard.
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01-26-2012, 04:21 AM
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Had a YWG with a tiger pistol for 3 years, until the goby was injured in a tank move. He recovered somewhat, but jumped after a few weeks. Sad to see the poor guy go like that.
I have since paired the same Pistol with a hi fin red banded goby. Another instant pair. Very cool, but often very frustrating, they definitely force me to keep an extra eye on the tank....but thats kinda why I got into this whole thing!
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30G Mixed Reef. Breeding Ocellaris in RBTA. Tail spot Blenny. Green (male) Mandarin. Hi-fin Red Goby w/ Pistol.
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03-23-2012, 01:46 AM
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Hello all, Great photos!
I have a yellow watchman goby in a 200g and I would love to pair her with a tiger pistol shrimp. I'm pretty sure it's a her as it has a duller yellow compared to some that I have seen. She only shows her grumpy face at feeding time! I actually saw tiger pistol shrimp for sale at Pisces here in Calgary but I didn't buy one because I have a few concerns. - I heard pistol shrimp prey on cleaner shrimp. I have two cleaner shrimp that would rather not get eaten haha. Also there is this video of the shrimp in the wild: http://www.aboutfishonline.com/artic...ol-shrimp.html Is it possible to keep them with cleaner shrimp or is that a recipe for disaster? -I also have a crushed coral substrate, not sand. Is sand required for this shrimp? Thanks all!
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04-05-2012, 09:00 PM
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I had a Randalls Goby paired with a pistol shrimp for about a year in a 10 gallon.They were best friends the second they met. The Goby jumped out one day and the pistol shrimp lived on until the relatives killed the tank while I was on holidays.
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