Powerful Shrimp

[Dave’s Saltwater]

Hello all,

I think I got some bad info at my LFS today
Am looking for a Tiger Pistol Shrimp for my watchman goby and was told by them if I have a glass aquarium it would break it
Correct me if I’m wrong but is someone mixing up the pistol shrimp with the mantis shrimp?

 

[Dread Pirate Dave]

Could be. There's plenty of people here with pistol shrimp in glass tanks. :)

 

[jhadaway117]

LOL.....Never heard of such a thing! I've got a Tiger Pistol/Watchman in a glass tank and have never even considered that that to be an issue. If it was, I'm sure my LFS would have said something before I purchased them.

 

[shcrimps]

highly doubt they could ever do that
i had one a couple years ago in a little 10 gallon aqueon tank and that glass is thin
he would shoot it and everything else all night and no issues with that (the only issue i had was he lived in my room and i like being able to sleep)

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Hello all,

I think I got some bad info at my LFS today
Am looking for a Tiger Pistol Shrimp for my watchman goby and was told by them if I have a glass aquarium it would break it
Correct me if I’m wrong but is someone mixing up the pistol shrimp with the mantis shrimp?

Yeah, they're mixing up pistol shrimp and mantis shrimp, but even for mantis shrimp it's incredibly rare for them to break glass:

Yeah, the breaking glass thing is really more an extreme, rare event with big specimens of large species (likely with thin glass or unnoticed structural integrity issues with the glass beforehand in at least some of the cases as well) - there are a handful of instances (see the quote and link below), but they're so uncommon as to be extreme statistical outliers.

So, the acrylic recommendation is more for peace of mind than anything.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/true-or-false-can-mantis-shrimp-crack-glass.85745/

oh hate mantis shrimp, my father had on in some living rock years ago and it grew and ended up striking at something on the glass , and cracked the 8mm glass. what a performance

 

[Spare time]

That is laughably wrong. They were probably thinking of mantis shrimps.