Goby/Pistol Shrimp Missing

[KyRo]

I'm sure they are just great at hiding, but this will ease my mind a bit while I'm at work, so please bear with me lol

I've had a Tellow Watchman Goby for about 5 months, but last night I decided to get a Pistol Shrimp. He is very small, but he looks like he's pretty tenacious. He immediately started to dig a hole under my larger rock and the Goby hopped right in the hole with him, it was actually pretty awesome. So I wake up this morning and check my tank. The hole is completely filled in with sand and both are nowhere to be found. I had to leave for work, so I couldn't search my whole tank, but I was kind of worried that some avalanche type thing happened and the Goby is stuck under the rock lol. I'm not even sure if that's possible, but I have never lost him before. I only really have a big rock and 2 smaller ones to the side of it, so there aren't too many places they can hide. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[glb]

I'm sure they are just great at hiding, but this will ease my mind a bit while I'm at work, so please bear with me lol

I've had a Tellow Watchman Goby for about 5 months, but last night I decided to get a Pistol Shrimp. He is very small, but he looks like he's pretty tenacious. He immediately started to dig a hole under my larger rock and the Goby hopped right in the hole with him, it was actually pretty awesome. So I wake up this morning and check my tank. The hole is completely filled in with sand and both are nowhere to be found. I had to leave for work, so I couldn't search my whole tank, but I was kind of worried that some avalanche type thing happened and the Goby is stuck under the rock lol. I'm not even sure if that's possible, but I have never lost him before. I only really have a big rock and 2 smaller ones to the side of it, so there aren't too many places they can hide. Has this happened to anyone else?

I’ve had a Diamond goby go into a hole that collapsed. I looked under the tank, which i can see from the inside of the stand, and saw a whole network of tunnels the little guy had dug. My guess is that your goby is fine. The shrimp I’m not so sure about. Hope they both show up!

 

[KyRo]

I’ve had a Diamond goby go into a hole that collapsed. I looked under the tank, which i can see from the inside of the stand, and saw a whole network of tunnels the little guy had dug. My guess is that your goby is fine. The shrimp I’m not so sure about. Hope they both show up!

Appreciate the response! Gonna be a long 5 hours, but I'm sure they're okay.

 

[Ashv5]

Appreciate the response! Gonna be a long 5 hours, but I'm sure they're okay.

I am sure they will be fine! Don't worry. Fish and shrimp are very resilient creatures.

 

[Birr83]

Hello, I have a ywg with a candy cane pistol shrimp that went MIA on me for a month when the shrimp molted for the first time. I'm not sure if this helps, but good luck finding them.