I bought this lil critter at my LFS recently. It was in a tank with a couple of other plume shrimp, a bunch of those tiny transparent cleaner shrimp with the yellow tails, and an assortment of coral frags, and was ignoring all of them.
Does anyone know anything about these? I found one source saying they do best in small groups- should I get more? There's very little online, though a couple of sources say it's reef-safe, and the lack of murdered frags in the shrimp sale tank would seem to indicate that it isn't too interested in corals.
The buttons at the top of the post creator that allow hyperlinks and the like don't work for me, except, ironically, the "more options" button, so here's some links to footage of the critter. Watch the snout!
That rostrum is mobile. It seems to be at least three parts; two outer bits that can fold outward, and a center projection that sorta resembles a three-sided feather. I have absolutely no clue what the rostrum is for; I've only seen it do things like this, fidgeting and whatnot. My guesses are that it's for extra smell receptors, for some sort of social gesturing, or maybe just an odd way to add camouflage.
Such a weird little critter.
Mostly, this is what I see of it. It hides under the rock in my QT tank. Definitely no filter-feeding activities, not that I've seen. It zips out to grab meaty foods, and that's it.
This is what it does if I stare at it too long, or point a phone camera at it. I've never had a shrimp do push-ups at me. Maybe it's trying to look like detritus, or to intimidate me somehow.
Does anyone know anything about these? I found one source saying they do best in small groups- should I get more? There's very little online, though a couple of sources say it's reef-safe, and the lack of murdered frags in the shrimp sale tank would seem to indicate that it isn't too interested in corals.
The buttons at the top of the post creator that allow hyperlinks and the like don't work for me, except, ironically, the "more options" button, so here's some links to footage of the critter. Watch the snout!
That rostrum is mobile. It seems to be at least three parts; two outer bits that can fold outward, and a center projection that sorta resembles a three-sided feather. I have absolutely no clue what the rostrum is for; I've only seen it do things like this, fidgeting and whatnot. My guesses are that it's for extra smell receptors, for some sort of social gesturing, or maybe just an odd way to add camouflage.
Such a weird little critter.
Mostly, this is what I see of it. It hides under the rock in my QT tank. Definitely no filter-feeding activities, not that I've seen. It zips out to grab meaty foods, and that's it.
This is what it does if I stare at it too long, or point a phone camera at it. I've never had a shrimp do push-ups at me. Maybe it's trying to look like detritus, or to intimidate me somehow.