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Purple-Tang · 10-26-2006, 07:01 PM

Hi, guys,

I am a very new member to forum, just joined like a week or so ago. Great to see some interesting threads from fellow hobbyist. Saltwater is awesome, I just started it like 9 months ago, because freshwater got boring. I purchased my reef system 5 months ago from ebay, brought it home, set it up and got some fish. It is 135 gallon reef. Anyways, I noticed lately some of the gobies and fishes had scratches on them and mainly, the gobies started to disappear on me. Yesterday, I saw wat appears to be a brown, pinky size, mantis shrimp. It doesnt look threatening, although it did scare away my yellow watchman goby. I had 3 of them, and now, there is only 1 left. I noticed the second watchman goby was torn a bit on the top fin, and was freqently jerking around, like he saw a ghost, and he eventually disappeared on me. My sand goby, was discovered dead, torn near the tail, and the other sand goby was so scared, he jumped up and fell into the overflow box (I saw it there). Do you guys think the mantis shrimp was the cause? He is pinky size, crawls in and out of the cracks in the rock very comfortably. I never noticed him for months, and just last night, I noticed him while feeding the fish. I dont know wat to do, because I want to get rid of him (prollly cook him up and make sushi) because I am upset over the feeling that he might have killed my gobies. Do you guys think he is the cause? If he is, how will I get him out? I do have like 200 pounds of rocks and a lot of corals and fishes currently. By the way, I DID NOT ADD HIM TO THE TANK, I DONT KNOW HOW HE GOT INTO MY TANK. Sorry for the caps, just want to make sure no one thinks I added him. I just want to get him out, but he is kinda fast and shrewd. Also, do you guys know how I can make my rocks purple? It seems that the color of the rocks are fading away to light purple now. I tried purple up, but that dont seem to help right now. Thanks for your time.

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10-26-2006, 07:01 PM	#1
Purple-Tang Fishy Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 13	Problem with sudden appearance of mantis Shrimp Hi, guys, I am a very new member to forum, just joined like a week or so ago. Great to see some interesting threads from fellow hobbyist. Saltwater is awesome, I just started it like 9 months ago, because freshwater got boring. I purchased my reef system 5 months ago from ebay, brought it home, set it up and got some fish. It is 135 gallon reef. Anyways, I noticed lately some of the gobies and fishes had scratches on them and mainly, the gobies started to disappear on me. Yesterday, I saw wat appears to be a brown, pinky size, mantis shrimp. It doesnt look threatening, although it did scare away my yellow watchman goby. I had 3 of them, and now, there is only 1 left. I noticed the second watchman goby was torn a bit on the top fin, and was freqently jerking around, like he saw a ghost, and he eventually disappeared on me. My sand goby, was discovered dead, torn near the tail, and the other sand goby was so scared, he jumped up and fell into the overflow box (I saw it there). Do you guys think the mantis shrimp was the cause? He is pinky size, crawls in and out of the cracks in the rock very comfortably. I never noticed him for months, and just last night, I noticed him while feeding the fish. I dont know wat to do, because I want to get rid of him (prollly cook him up and make sushi) because I am upset over the feeling that he might have killed my gobies. Do you guys think he is the cause? If he is, how will I get him out? I do have like 200 pounds of rocks and a lot of corals and fishes currently. By the way, I DID NOT ADD HIM TO THE TANK, I DONT KNOW HOW HE GOT INTO MY TANK. Sorry for the caps, just want to make sure no one thinks I added him. I just want to get him out, but he is kinda fast and shrewd. Also, do you guys know how I can make my rocks purple? It seems that the color of the rocks are fading away to light purple now. I tried purple up, but that dont seem to help right now. Thanks for your time. Long Last edited by Purple-Tang; 10-26-2006 at 08:35 PM.