How does one encourage a pistol shrimp/goby to move to a new location?
Hello, >>Hi, Travis. >I started my first reef tank about six weeks ago. The tank is a thirteen gallon with about fifteen pounds of live rock, some corals, a tube worm, blue legged hermits, and Astrea snails. The only other inhabitants are a yellow watchman goby and pistol shrimp pair. Tank has about 60 watts of light, and a protein skimmer that came with the tank. The tank and skimmer were made by CPR. I feed my tube worm about a grain of rice worth of Black Powder around once a week. Is the Black Powder a sufficient food for the worm? Should I feed the worm more often? >>I like to see a variety of foods offered, and if you can see your way clear a culture of rotifers offered to all the filter feeders would be helpful, same thing with plankton in general. Some also really appreciate getting the “juice” that’s exuded from foods such as squid, clams, shrimp, and fish. Also, you would want to keep an eye on both alkalinity (buffering capacity of the water) as well as your calcium levels.
