Triggerfish124
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Hi,
I have a 75 gallon aquarium that has an engineer goby (14+"), an ocellaris clown pair (2"), a striped fang blenny (1"), a longspined urchin, nassarius and bumblebee snails, and a zebra hermit crab (left clawed). I purchased the bumblebee snails and 2 peppermint shrimp on 04/01. Until today I have seen one perching in a cave that is on the opposite side of my engineer goby's territory. I am worried that my engineer goby ate the peppermint shrimp. They were quite large, about 2-3". There are two small pieces of exoskeleton near the place my engineer goby likes to hang out. Ik its likely that the peppermint shrimp just shed their exoskeleton, but the pieces are more colored. One's exoskeleton is stuck to my filter and its transparent. I have had one other peppermint shrimp in the past anf he also shed a colored exoskeleton when I first acquired him, but it still worries me. Is it more likely the peppermint shrimp are just out of sight or that he ate them?
I have heard that adult engineer gobies can eat ornamental shrimps, but I expected the shrimps in question to be smaller shrimp like the sexy shrimp. My engineer goby in particular is a picky eater. Since babyhood he has only eaten Ocean Nutrition pellets and algae wafers. I feed my fish an assortment of food so I have always hoped one day he would start to eat the shrimp and flakes I feed the other fish but no such luck. I have seen mysis shrimp float just in front of his face, to no avail. When it comes to sand shifting, he doesn't do much of that either. I have a hollow piece of aquarium decor that he uses as a cave (it twists and turns like a maze so I call him Daedalus) and he generally makes a hollow underneath it and that's it. Because of this compared to other descriptions I've read about eningeer gobies, I've always seen mine as a lethargic fellow. He never swims swiftly the few times he has swam around the aquarium so I have a hard time believing he snapped up two large shrimp before they could jump back liks shrimp do.I still plan to watch out for the shrimp, but I wanted to hear if anyone else has had their engineer gobies dining on larger shrimp.
I have a 75 gallon aquarium that has an engineer goby (14+"), an ocellaris clown pair (2"), a striped fang blenny (1"), a longspined urchin, nassarius and bumblebee snails, and a zebra hermit crab (left clawed). I purchased the bumblebee snails and 2 peppermint shrimp on 04/01. Until today I have seen one perching in a cave that is on the opposite side of my engineer goby's territory. I am worried that my engineer goby ate the peppermint shrimp. They were quite large, about 2-3". There are two small pieces of exoskeleton near the place my engineer goby likes to hang out. Ik its likely that the peppermint shrimp just shed their exoskeleton, but the pieces are more colored. One's exoskeleton is stuck to my filter and its transparent. I have had one other peppermint shrimp in the past anf he also shed a colored exoskeleton when I first acquired him, but it still worries me. Is it more likely the peppermint shrimp are just out of sight or that he ate them?
I have heard that adult engineer gobies can eat ornamental shrimps, but I expected the shrimps in question to be smaller shrimp like the sexy shrimp. My engineer goby in particular is a picky eater. Since babyhood he has only eaten Ocean Nutrition pellets and algae wafers. I feed my fish an assortment of food so I have always hoped one day he would start to eat the shrimp and flakes I feed the other fish but no such luck. I have seen mysis shrimp float just in front of his face, to no avail. When it comes to sand shifting, he doesn't do much of that either. I have a hollow piece of aquarium decor that he uses as a cave (it twists and turns like a maze so I call him Daedalus) and he generally makes a hollow underneath it and that's it. Because of this compared to other descriptions I've read about eningeer gobies, I've always seen mine as a lethargic fellow. He never swims swiftly the few times he has swam around the aquarium so I have a hard time believing he snapped up two large shrimp before they could jump back liks shrimp do.I still plan to watch out for the shrimp, but I wanted to hear if anyone else has had their engineer gobies dining on larger shrimp.
