Bongo Shrimp's 29g Lagoon

[ReeferRob]

More pics!!

[Bongo Shrimp]

I WILL! They are both currently riding on a turbo snail I put in the cage with them. Gotta let them out soon.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Friendly the turbo.

Bad pic because I took it with my iPhone.

Also, they both molted last night!

[slapshot]

Now you know what they were talking about the other day. They were discussing changing their cloths what was approprate in their new home. Congrates I take molting as a good sign. Have you seen them eat yet?

[Bongo Shrimp]

I have not seen them eat. I might try handing them something with tweezers before I let them out of their little cage today.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Sad news today. Lost one of the shrimp. I just can't figure out what went wrong. So frustrated!

[Tom@HaslettMI]

Sad news today. Lost one of the shrimp. I just can't figure out what went wrong. So frustrated!

Not trying to flame or be a jerk but if you don't know their basic care requirements (what they eat), wouldn't it be nearly impossible (not to mention a little irresponsible) to try to keep them in captivity? I know you have had success with other difficult to keep inverts and the hobby need people pushing the envelope... it just it saddens me to see beautiful animals taken from the reef only to starve in our tanks.


JMHO,
Tom

[Bongo Shrimp]

Not trying to flame or be a jerk but if you don't know their basic care requirements (what they eat), wouldn't it be nearly impossible (not to mention a little irresponsible) to try to keep them in captivity? I know you have had success with other difficult to keep inverts and the hobby need people pushing the envelope... it just it saddens me to see beautiful animals taken from the reef only to starve in our tanks.


JMHO,
Tom

I can only try. Plus I still have one. Hey, someone has to try. From all the research I have done I have tried to construct the best environment possible for them. I can't do much more. I do understand where you
re coming from but I think there's a difference between the guy who buys them because they look cool and does no research, and the guy who does as much research as possible, tries to replicate the environment and then gets them.

The thing that really gets me is that they both ate yesterday.

[Tom@HaslettMI]

There's totally a difference. I know you're not just impulse buying these and wouldn't get them if you didn't think you had a fair shot at keeping them. My main concern was you didn't know what they ate (I didn't know you had gotten them to eat til the last post). That means there's hope for the other one.

I actually have a lot of respect for your interest and efforts in keeping difficult species. As I read the earlier posts I was just a little like "WTF is he doing if he doesn't even know what they eat?!". Hopefully the remaining shrimp keeps on keeping on for you.

Tom

[Bongo Shrimp]

Yeah I guess I should have mentioned that earlier but yesterday I took tweezers and handed each a single thawed out frozen mysis shrimp (the little kind not PE). But anyhow they both held on to and appeared to be eating the shrimp for about ten minutes. Then they dropped it. But how big could their stomachs be?

The best I have found pertaining to their diet was the fecal pellets of their partner cucumber, slug, or snail ( hence why I gave them a turbo snail to be with.

The feather star on the other hand still is unknown when it comes to it's diet yet I and a few others have been able to keep them longer than their normal survival time in the aquarium before starvation catches up with them.

The only thing I can think of is that they need more area to pick around at such as in the rest of the tank rather than just in their little cage with a little piece of rock and a little bit of sand. But it is still a bit of an unknown.