Pistol shrimp cunstruction

[Hunter399]

My pistol shrimp the last two days has moved probably at least several pounds of sand. I had about 2- 2 1/2 inches of sand and he has piled up 5 inch mounds and caused a huge mess. It's whatever and I laughed about it.

My concern is my tank is only 7-8 weeks old and I remembered week 3 I had the impulse to vacuum my sand and caused a new bloom. Will this guy cause a diatom bloom or mess my cycle up. Everything has been rock solid the last couple weeks and added 4 fish and significant coralline growth.

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[deedubz]

I have 2 pistol shrimp, each with their own goby, and a diamond goby. My substrate shifts more than the Sahara desert. I've had 0 issues from them(other than sand in my acans). I'd imagine it could only be beneficial and help to prevent detritus from settling under the top layer

 

[KJ Coral shop]

If anything mine has helped. Only issue I have had is them thying to cover my plate coral in sand!

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

Everything are fine if you don't plan to add any corals that need to be on sand bed.

 

[Hunter399]

Sounds good. Thanks for the help, I am still going through the process of waiting for my tank to mature so I was watching it happen and had the thought he could be stirring stuff up. Which can be good!