Creatures for ID!!!!

[KLR]

I was cutting one of my large chalcies in half..middle was dead... and found these creatures

a brittle star and a pistol shrimp

my question is what type are they, are they reef safe??

brittle has bright red bands on the legs and blue..kinda patriotic

 

[nice_corals]

I have a bunch of those stars in my tank they just hide i dnt knw the name though

 

[KLR]

Ok so the star would be good for the new frag tank???

I have one similar in the 75, but it has yellow bands not red,white, and blue

Is the pistol shrimp a tiger pistol??

 

[boehm742]

My tanks filled with those star, alot smaller maybe the size of a quarter atm, no ill affects, they do a good job cleaning up.

 

[KLR]

Ok star is going in the frag tank!

Now for this little pistol shrimp???/

 

[clowns101]

Pistol Shrimp are safe,get a goby and pair him up!

 

[KLR]

i already have a pair who were going to go in the frag tank, so now what.......lol

 

[clowns101]

LOL,well,Im not sure,the 75 gallon need a pistol shrimp?

 

[KLR]

Id prefer not,lol, could i like put the pistol shrimp in a small fish bowl on the bottom with some live rock or something???

 

[clowns101]

LOL,thats fine!

In a fish bowl?Not the best,I guess you could but a little like 1 gallon goldfish tank with the little 5 watt bulb in it and put a few LED with some softies.

 

[KLR]

I think the pistol shrimp is a tiger pistol, check out this mated pair picture i found of tigers

 

[KLR]

Sorry wrong picture, this is it

 

[clowns101]

Did you find another or this just some randome pic?

 

[KLR]

Thats just a picture i found on google, it said mated tiger pistol shrimp pair

 

[Troylee]

The mini brittle is harmless.... Not sure on the shrimp.. I have had a couple pop out of acro colonies I have bought and revive gets the best of them... Lol