how to get rid of a pistol shrimp?

[dirk_brijs]

had one found locally from the beach here but he made now a buffet of my 2 coral banded
would like to add some other species of shrimp (cleaner or so) but I am sure that pistol would just enjoy it too much as free lunch again.
So how to get rid of it? if possible as they never show?

 

[cajonez]

Are you sure it was a pistol shrimp and not something else? Mine has never hurt anything else in my tank. Anyway, you should be able to find its burrow. It will just look like a hole next to one of your peices of LR.

 

[fenrir]

I at one point added a pair of Caribbean pistols to my 14G Biocube that killed almost all of my original tank mates when I started. Cleaner shrimp, Bi Color blenny and two emeralds. Those traps don't work and I had to tear my tank apart to get the little sob's out.

 

[dirk_brijs]

will be getting all my rocks out tomorrow
any advise before I do?
cant go any longer he is digging under all my rockwork all of it is ready to fall over now.
One time good excuse to re_landscape
will post some pictures from before and after maybe later
so keep the advise coming so when i get up tomorrow I know what to think of

 

[fenrir]

I did it during a water change so I had some extra water put in rubber maid buckets while I pried the boogers out. Good luck, it sure wasn't fun for me!

 

[dirk_brijs]

well thats a nice encouragement so early in the morning haha

 

[hunt]

i had a pistol shrimp once that came in on a live rock. it never came out if someone was in the room and it never hurt anythind and i bearly got a good look at it, then one day i just stopped seeing it.