DragonWrasseFan
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Hello!
Please bear with me because this is going to be a really long thread, but I can really use some help ……I’m new to this forum, but I’ve been lurking it for just over seven months when I started this hobby. I have a candy cane pistol shrimp who is paired up with a Yasha Goby in a 15 gallon all in one nano tank. They were doing just fine until recently when I decided, under the advisement of my LFS, to purchase an emerald crab to tackle a little bit of bubble algae I saw a pop-up. The very first night, after I added the emerald crab to my tank, the candycane pistol shrimp worked his way into my filter sock. I have overflow slots at the top left-hand corner of my tank that float into the filter sock. The emerald crab also made my Yasha nervous so I decided to return him to the LFS. I thought everything was good, but then a couple days after the return my pistol shrimp ended up in the filter sock once again. Now he goes up in there almost every night. He never did this before I got the emerald crab. Now, almost every morning. I have to take my sock out, and when I put the sock in my main tank and turn it upside down, he crawls right out and goes right back to the burrow, and then him and my Yasha goby are together for the day. This only happens at night, and it doesn’t happen until I turn off all the lights in the room. As soon as all the lights go out in the room, he normally makes at least one pop noise. My tank lights go out hours before the rest of the lights in the room go out. It’s not super bright cause we dim the lights in the room down, but there’s definitely ambient light until later at night. I have built 3-D mesh cages out of needlepoint plastic canvas, and I’ve tried several different ways to block the overflow slots. He still finds a way in there. I cannot put anything directly against the overflow slots because it restricts the flow too much. So I had to build like a 3-D cage that sits just a little ways away from the slots. I have blocked almost every way I can think of, and he still finds a way to get in there. I don’t know what to do at this point. My nitrate is between 5 and 10ppm, and my phosphate is 0.25. Alkalinity is 7.7. I did have higher parameters before, but they’ve been sitting at these numbers for weeks now. Has anybody ever heard of this happening, and do you have any idea why he’s doing this? I’ve scoured the Internet and I cannot find anyone else who has ever had this problem with a candy cane pistol shrimp. I’m worried he’s gonna end up stressing himself out to where he dies, or he’s going to stress out my Yasha. Not to mention having to pull him out of the sock every morning isn’t fun.
Please bear with me because this is going to be a really long thread, but I can really use some help ……I’m new to this forum, but I’ve been lurking it for just over seven months when I started this hobby. I have a candy cane pistol shrimp who is paired up with a Yasha Goby in a 15 gallon all in one nano tank. They were doing just fine until recently when I decided, under the advisement of my LFS, to purchase an emerald crab to tackle a little bit of bubble algae I saw a pop-up. The very first night, after I added the emerald crab to my tank, the candycane pistol shrimp worked his way into my filter sock. I have overflow slots at the top left-hand corner of my tank that float into the filter sock. The emerald crab also made my Yasha nervous so I decided to return him to the LFS. I thought everything was good, but then a couple days after the return my pistol shrimp ended up in the filter sock once again. Now he goes up in there almost every night. He never did this before I got the emerald crab. Now, almost every morning. I have to take my sock out, and when I put the sock in my main tank and turn it upside down, he crawls right out and goes right back to the burrow, and then him and my Yasha goby are together for the day. This only happens at night, and it doesn’t happen until I turn off all the lights in the room. As soon as all the lights go out in the room, he normally makes at least one pop noise. My tank lights go out hours before the rest of the lights in the room go out. It’s not super bright cause we dim the lights in the room down, but there’s definitely ambient light until later at night. I have built 3-D mesh cages out of needlepoint plastic canvas, and I’ve tried several different ways to block the overflow slots. He still finds a way in there. I cannot put anything directly against the overflow slots because it restricts the flow too much. So I had to build like a 3-D cage that sits just a little ways away from the slots. I have blocked almost every way I can think of, and he still finds a way to get in there. I don’t know what to do at this point. My nitrate is between 5 and 10ppm, and my phosphate is 0.25. Alkalinity is 7.7. I did have higher parameters before, but they’ve been sitting at these numbers for weeks now. Has anybody ever heard of this happening, and do you have any idea why he’s doing this? I’ve scoured the Internet and I cannot find anyone else who has ever had this problem with a candy cane pistol shrimp. I’m worried he’s gonna end up stressing himself out to where he dies, or he’s going to stress out my Yasha. Not to mention having to pull him out of the sock every morning isn’t fun.
