New Additions!

hello, well i finished my nitrogen cycle last week, and i waited 4 days to do a 15 gal water change and tested my water yesterday, everything came out excellent! so i just got some new additions in my tank, i got more hermit crabs, some turbo snails, one skunk cleaner shrimp, one yellow watchman goby with his mate the pistol shrimp! looking great and my 2 domino damsels are better than ever to have new friends! now a quick question i dont like where my goby and pistol shrimp did there tunnel because is in the back part of my tank is there a way to make them change location?

 

The shrimp and goby will go where they want to go. IMO its not very responsible fishkeeping to relocate it for aesthetics. They will likely move their burrow around voluntarily every so often. Your damsels will be very very aggressive and possibly kill other fish you put in there. Damsels are inch for inch the most aggressive fish out there.

 

My maroon clown keeps mine under control.. and my yellow tang keeps my maroon under control Damsels are very colorful additions, but with the goby and pistol shrimps you should be ok. I couldn't see them putting up with the damsel.

 

There's no real way to change where they will make a burrow, it's up to them.

 

Thanks for the hostility im no expert in this so thats why i ask!

 

Before our Pinkbar Goby went basejumping onto the carpet, he and his Tiger Pistol buddy would change burrows or holes every 2 or 3 days, until they finally had at least 5 or 6 different ones in our tank. I think 3 of those holes were connected...whatever. They were a weird crew. In the process of trying to track down a yellow watchman to replace the pinkbar goby with (he didn't survive the 3 days on the carpet behind the tank )

I hope you don't mind your sand being moved around alot. Don't put anything on the sand bed you don't want to loose, like frags for example. They'll get burried eventually.

I love my pistol. Nice additions.