Yasha Goby - out now not

[Publiccert]

Hi everyone - first post!

I picked up a Yasha Goby with a pistol shrimp Saturday. They picked a nice rock in my 45g and were making good progress making themselves comfortable. Yasha was out, feeding morning and night, guiding his shrimp buddy around for building material.

Since Tuesday I hadn't seen either of them. Not too concerned, I expected this from day 1. However, today the shrimp decided to come out by himself and was actively feeding.

I'm not overly familiar with Yasha's and was wondering if its normal for a pair to stop behaving as they were? I haven't touched their rock and the shrimp seems happy enough - expanding his territory to the next LV 6" away, pulling in 'goby rocks' to block the snails from getting too close.

Apologies for the panic - making the switch from FW tanks so a bit sensitive towards these weird dude's needs.

 

[Dread Pirate Dave]

I kind of wish I had gone with this than just my diamond watchman goby. But he does keep my sand clean so I'm quite happy with him.

What else do you have in your tank? How long has it been set up?

 

[Publiccert]

I have a pinkbar goby in another tank that is way more interesting!

In this tank I have:
-2 juvie clownfish
-1 juvie biota yellow tang (I've read about the tang police so I ask for clemency as I have a custom 120g being made just for him as he grows!)
-1 juvie biota mandarin (I'm aware of how hard they are to feed so I started a 20g copepod tank (might scale this down in a couple months), a 2.5g BBS tank, I have a refugium as well with chaeto and even more pods - this guy isn't going to be starving)
-1 purple firefish goby

What's interesting is all of the above hangout on the far left of my tank where my main rockwork is. Whereas the Yasha and shrimp took up residence on the far right, with way less rock work.

 

[Publiccert]

Just wanted to ask again whether its normal for my Yasha to have disappeared for 1.5 weeks. I'm asking because I'm surprised to see my pistol shrimp out and so confident without him so something seems odd.

I considered going digging for the Yasha to see if I found a body but the shrimp is doing so well I'm worried about setting him back. I checked the water in case he died but no ammonia spike either.

Thanks!

 

[Dread Pirate Dave]

That does seem like a long time to not see him.

 

[pache11]

Yasha gobies like to get into overflows and tank filtration. I had early issues with them in my 10 gallon until i paired with candy cane pistol shrimp(Randalls)

 

[JoJosReef]

Also possible that the yasha went to a different spot and the pistol stayed. Mine did that once and finally made it back to his pistol shrimp buddy. If you have enough food going into the tank they might be fine, although 1.5 weeks is a while to go without seeing a previously social yasha--always possible he/she got freaked out or licked on and went into hiding.

 

[betomena]

Hi, good luck with your yasha goby/pistol shrimp pair. I got mine last night and today they seem to be doing fine, even came out to eat during feeding time.
I hope your yasha goby shows up.