Help with trapping a pistol shrimp

[Mandinga]

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can catch a pistol shrimp?

[ReeFit]

i've seen small spring loaded mantis traps that would probably work for pistol shrimp as well.

[JasonH]

Will pistol shrimp come out of their hole and hunt/forage enough to get caught in a trap? The only thing that I've heard is a bit of a nuclear option... determine which rock they are in, the take the rock out of the tank and pour tonic water/seltzer onto/into the rock and they'll run out. I would try other options first. But I thought I'd mention it.

[Mandinga]

will interceptor kill a pistol?

[JasonH]

It would kill all the crustaceans in your tank - crabs, shrimp, pods. I would think it would do the trick, if it's worth it.

[Mandinga]

I was researching this on RC just now and it seems like most pistol shrimp will survive interceptor treatments...hmmmmmmm....i definitely would like to just catch him, it is really a cool creature.

[JasonH]

Interesting on them surviving and interceptor treatment, must be tough buggers.

 

You can try the tonic water trick, and then just be prepared to get him right back into some salt water. But I would think that would be 50/50.

[ReeFit]

why not just get a goby for it and let them live in harmony?

[Mandinga]

the pistol has developed a diet for snails and crabs...well, I should have known before i bought him, which is why i wont just kill him...Plus his burrowing is starting to scare me...AVALANCHE!

[ReeFit]

the pistol has developed a diet for snails and crabs...well' date=' I should have known before i bought him, which is why i wont just kill him...Plus his burrowing is starting to scare me...AVALANCHE![/quote']

 

try target feeding maybe. that very reason is why i put my rock on the glass first and then fill with sand around it. not had anything fall over yet. my big tang moves 3-4 inches of sand around a day, its crazy.

[dee77]

do all pistols eat crabs and snails?

[dee77]

also i have a trap if you want to use it my cleaner shrimp got in there when i was catching my damsels.. got all 7 of them(clap)(clap)(rock2)

[Mandinga]

what kind of trap?

[dee77]

http://cse.f3images.com/IMD/feeds/UL1511_50.jpg

 

 

you also still gotta come over and grab some rics and bring some zoa's

[reefnjunkie]

When I found a pistol shrimp in my tank (LR taht I bought from a fellow reefer) and could not get the sucker out, the best thing I found was..........................

 

 

The Epoxy made by 2 little fishies. I like that brand as it is purple when mixed up.

Anyway you mix up a little bit and when the shrimp hides in his hole you epoxy the hole shut.

 

I thought it worked fine until I realized he had an emergency escape route-A little more epoxy and no more pistol shrimp.

 

Cruel but good luck catching it-SWF sells the epoxy

[Jay]

You must be thinking of a mantis shrimp and not a pistol shrimp....which is reef safe.

[reefnjunkie]

You must be thinking of a mantis shrimp and not a pistol shrimp....which is reef safe.

 

From the pics I was able to get while it was "out" (and what I saw online) people said it was a pistol shrimp.

 

I read both good and bad and decided that since it was something I did not intentionally add I was not willing to wait and see what happened-(nono)

 

There was no catching it and I don’t get bothered by that-some do but not myself, then again I have also seen videos of people crying while grass is cut-(sad) oh the pain-:eek:

 

Sorry-