I just probably lost my gorgeous Flordia Ricodera Mushroom to my Pistol Shrimp. And, that's the last straw. The other two coral he almost killed were in the sand; this one was on the rockwork. I hadn't glued it down yet because I plan on getting another 2-3 pieces of LR and not exactly sure how I want to finish off my aquascaping.
He pulled it off, and used it as a doorstop, and now my mushroom that had about been to split has barley any tissue left at all. It had two mouths, now only has one.
As much as that shrimp entertains me, he's going.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to catch him, without removing all the rock out of the sand?
My initial idea would be to 'section off' the tank with some eggcrate, and pin him so I could catch him.But that would require me pulling the rock out of the sand, to do so.
I know these buggers are fast. I'm sure the watchman goby will be fine, without him. But that dude is going, one way or another, before he wrecks more of my tank or my coral. He'd previously used my scoly as a doorstop, too. And tried to steal my plate coral (caught him in the act of doing that), and tried to steal my acro as well (caught him doing that, too).
I put plenty of empty snail shells around his little cave, but ... apparently that only worked for so long.