advice needed for goby/shrimp choices

[krishj39]

I've got a 12g Aquapod. What shrimp goby/ pistol shrimp combinations do you guys recommend? Since it's such a small tank with so few inhabitants I'd like something with a good amount of color and/or personality. If I get these it would be specifically for the symbiotic relationship too so I'd want two species that are very likely to form a relationship with each other. What do you guys have? What's worked? Do you have photos?

 

[krishj39]

Bump.

 

[schadiest1]

I kept a watchman and a tiger pistol shrimp for some time. Great color and great relationship, the only draw back was I rarely saw them. They built their home under some rocks/sand and only came out to feed, sometimes not even then.

 

[scsinet]

I've kept the same combination twice, one in my big reef, one in my nano.
One combination paired up until the shrimp died a year later, and the other the shrimp and goby have been in the nano for 18 months and have never paired up.
It's kind of touch and go.

 

[metalhead]

i see at lfs that gobies and shrimp already pair up, mabie you should try and look for a previosly established pair???

 

[bschaible]

yeah, you can usually find pre-paired specimens. i'd go with the high-fin goby and pistol shrimp. the high fin is beautiful but is sorta skittish....i think on this site its referred to as a barbershop shrimpgoby

 

[krazekajin]

I have a barbershop goby and pistol shrimp in my 10g nano. I don't see much of them, but they are some of my favorite fish. I enjoy the relationship between fish and shrimp.