Sorry for the poor quality...
Thought this was king of interesting since it almost looks as if the goby is giving the shrimp food. I'm inclined to think it was accidental and he was just opening his mouth to chase the goby back into the hole.
Mainly I'm just happy to have these two back together after an odd week long ordeal of the two of them disappearing and not coming out of the burrow. I decided to go in after them since I have been putting off transfering them to another tank and was affraid both were dead. I found the goby but not the shrimp. Had not heard a click from the shrimp for days so I assumed he was dead.
After I transfered the goby he freaked out for a few days while I struggled to find a replacement shrimp. He wouldn't eat, was coming dangerously close to my carpet anemone, and was swimming all over the tank (very unlike him). Then a couple nights ago I was in my fish room and heard a click come from the 10 gal the two of them had been housed in, luckily I hadn't unplugged the heater and procrastinated on tearing the tank down. I dug around in the sand for a while and saw nothing. Just before I was about to give up I saw something move and it was him. So, I gathered some rubble from that tank and put it in my sand flat tank, netted the pistol out, acclimated him, and this is what I found the following day. I love these guys and it'll be a very sad day for me and the remaining partner when one of them finally does perish.
Thought this was king of interesting since it almost looks as if the goby is giving the shrimp food. I'm inclined to think it was accidental and he was just opening his mouth to chase the goby back into the hole.
Mainly I'm just happy to have these two back together after an odd week long ordeal of the two of them disappearing and not coming out of the burrow. I decided to go in after them since I have been putting off transfering them to another tank and was affraid both were dead. I found the goby but not the shrimp. Had not heard a click from the shrimp for days so I assumed he was dead.
After I transfered the goby he freaked out for a few days while I struggled to find a replacement shrimp. He wouldn't eat, was coming dangerously close to my carpet anemone, and was swimming all over the tank (very unlike him). Then a couple nights ago I was in my fish room and heard a click come from the 10 gal the two of them had been housed in, luckily I hadn't unplugged the heater and procrastinated on tearing the tank down. I dug around in the sand for a while and saw nothing. Just before I was about to give up I saw something move and it was him. So, I gathered some rubble from that tank and put it in my sand flat tank, netted the pistol out, acclimated him, and this is what I found the following day. I love these guys and it'll be a very sad day for me and the remaining partner when one of them finally does perish.
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