watchmen goby and red banded pistol

[classklown90]

I just bough my first fish, a watchmen goby. with him i bough a red banded pistol shrimp who is very tiny about 1/2 in and the goby is maybe an inch. so far once i put them in I have not seenthe shrimp at all, is this normal? the goby is swimming around so he seems fine

[iDream]

congrats! post pics now plz =]

but yes this is normal for the shrimp to hide, you probably wont see much of him, just listen for clicks every once in a while.

whats odd is the watchman swimming out in the open, they're usually shy, but i wouldnt think much of it.

[classklown90]

ill get pics up in the morning, i hope he makes his burrow in the open, he swam into the middle of my rocks and hasnt been seen since (about three hours) the watchmen is great though!

[iDream]

good to hear! i'll eventually get some pics of my cube up, i have them. i have have to not be lazy and upload them from my laptop

[classklown90]

haha yea ive been waitin for them

[the_fish_man]

nice and soon you will have some frags to put in there to =) i will try to get pics for you

[classklown90]

haha great, thanks fish man . So this morning i woke up and went to look at the tank, i noticed one of my blue hermits was dead(my smallest and favorite one ) and the tank was near the watchmens lair(sounds cool lol) so i assume he killed it.. he is doing great, he even ate food i dropped in today but my pistol shrimp is MIA and i havent heard any clicks. Do you think the watchman ate him too??

[iDream]

the pistol probably took out the hermit, thats kinda what they do.

[classklown90]

oh okay because i saw either the hermits body or his molt in front of the goby and im positive it was from the blue hermit due to the blue legs. all my other crabs are much bigger than the pistol. think they will be okay? i wish i took a pic of him before putting him in the tank but he is extremly small about 1/3 an inch maybe less

[iDream]

hmm, maybe it was a molt if hes that small. i dont think he could take out anything at that size

[austinsdad]

It was likely a molt, I'll bet. You might go weeks, or maybe even months before you see that shrimp. Not unusual at all.

[classklown90]

definitely was not a molt, just found his empty shell :/ and i do not have other shells for him to move into, yet. And okay thanks austinsdad, i guess ill just try to spot the little guy at night