My tiger pistol shrimp is the WORST. No one warned me.. Just sharing in case anyone decides this will be a peaceful critter to add! You might get lucky, but I’m really really regretting my decision not to wait until I found a nice little Randall’s.
Three days ago, he murdered my beloved female yasha goby whom he’s shared a home with for the past 5 months. I found her stunned in the middle of the tank, barely alive, fins ripped to nubs and the pistol shrimp out of his hole (really unusual) picking at her fins. I don’t have proof this is what happened, but I have no other explanation, she was extremely healthy.
Not only that, but I’ve lost $100s worth of frags to this stupid shrimp. First night I put some frags on the sandbed, all 4 were gone by morning. Sometimes he’s nice enough to return the empty frag plugs after they’ve died. And so of course I learned to glue everything down.. and he learned to pull them off the rocks.. today I saw him trying his absolute hardest to pull one of my big RFAs into his burrow and probably damaged it in the process... UGH. Oh and yes he has plenty of shells and rubble scattered around the tank, but he REALLY likes those frag plugs.
Am I the only one with this experience? Was I just unlucky enough to get an evil rogue shrimp?
Three days ago, he murdered my beloved female yasha goby whom he’s shared a home with for the past 5 months. I found her stunned in the middle of the tank, barely alive, fins ripped to nubs and the pistol shrimp out of his hole (really unusual) picking at her fins. I don’t have proof this is what happened, but I have no other explanation, she was extremely healthy.
Not only that, but I’ve lost $100s worth of frags to this stupid shrimp. First night I put some frags on the sandbed, all 4 were gone by morning. Sometimes he’s nice enough to return the empty frag plugs after they’ve died. And so of course I learned to glue everything down.. and he learned to pull them off the rocks.. today I saw him trying his absolute hardest to pull one of my big RFAs into his burrow and probably damaged it in the process... UGH. Oh and yes he has plenty of shells and rubble scattered around the tank, but he REALLY likes those frag plugs.
Am I the only one with this experience? Was I just unlucky enough to get an evil rogue shrimp?