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10-19-2006, 11:01 PM
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mantis shrimp...i think
yesterday i found the molt of what my fish guy belives to be a mantis shrimp. i brought the skelton to him and he said that what it was, and to try and catch him before he gets too big and starts to kill my fish. the mantis shrimp molt i found was about an inch long. i can here a faint click, click, clicking sound. ive read thats its pretty loud, but i was thinking it was quiet because it was so small.
i mostly worried for my midas blenny who is always tucked away in rock crevises. how big do these mantis shrimp have to be to start hurting my tank? (i have a fish only tank) i have a trap set for it tonight, i just hope it gets it, i heard they were smart and wont go back in it a second time if it gets out.
i'll try and get a photo of the molt on the computer tomorrow.
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10-20-2006, 04:33 AM
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If you hear a "click" it's most likely a "Pistol Shrimp". But without seeing the "molt" I couldn't say. Have you seen snails with busted up shells? When the Mantis Shrimp flick them you'll hear a click. By chance did you see the "Claws"? Did it look like a "Pincher" (like a lobster claw) or a what praying mantis's grabber?
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10-20-2006, 10:58 AM
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actually mantis make a click as well... it doesn't have to be very big to harm anything... try viewing your tank at night with red colored flashlight
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10-20-2006, 08:29 PM
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i have a small one that dosent bash in anything so far, even though its a smasher i cant even get him to bash the food i feed him.so you wouldnt always find smashed in items if you have a mantis.
i would start tring to bait him out into the open.mabey find 1 rock with lots of holes in it and seperate it from the rest of the rocks and start putting a chunk of shrimp tied to a small rock right beside the one you seperated every night after the lights go out sooner or later the mantis or pistol will move into that rock where it can be cought easily.
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10-21-2006, 11:41 AM
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well we have split the tank down the middle witht he rocks, so that way i can tell what side of the tank he is on so that i can narrow down the rocks.
i didint hear anything last night, i used a blue flash light to look for him, but nothing yet.
i also set a trap for him, and i even thought i had him the next morning! but i ended up catching my flame hawke fish, who died a couple of hours after finding him in the tank. 
i will not give up!
here are the picks of the molt i found.
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10-21-2006, 12:03 PM
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oh yes. definitely a mantis shrimp. Get it out as soon as possible or it will probably end up killing your fish and inverts.
When you do catch it, it would make an excellent candidate for a species tank. 
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10-21-2006, 12:23 PM
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If you do catch it... PLEASE send it to me! I'll pay you for shipping and everything... I've been wanting a mantis for sometime now!
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10-21-2006, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Fishfirst
If you do catch it... PLEASE send it to me! I'll pay you for shipping and everything... I've been wanting a mantis for sometime now!
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You should talk to some of the people on Grim Reefers ( www.grimreefers.com ). A lot of them keep mantis shrimp, im sure you could get one from someone there.
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10-21-2006, 12:42 PM
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luckly we dont have any inverterbrates.
is it big enough to hurt some of my fish now?
we have;
2 b&w clown fish
3 cromis
1 kole tang
1 blue throat trigger
1 midas blenny
1 spotted toby (who is blind, i hand feed him every night)
all my fish are around 4 inches or less.
does anybody have any other suggestions on how to catch this guy?
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10-21-2006, 01:04 PM
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I would try an inverted 20 oz soda bottle... with a nice piece of krill in there.
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10-21-2006, 01:35 PM
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mantis shrimp swim quite well and a bottle trick wont work
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10-21-2006, 02:34 PM
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an inverted bottle is similar to a minnow saine... minnows swim good... but it still works. Of coarse I would monitor the bottle quite a bit... so the mantis doesn't figure out how to get out.
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210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT
"All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy
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10-21-2006, 06:13 PM
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ok well its 8pm eastern time, and i will feed the fish soon, and turn off all the light so that they will go to bed early. and see if ican catch him/find him
i'll keep you posted.
thanks guys
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10-21-2006, 06:20 PM
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did I say saine I meant a minnow trap
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210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT
"All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy
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10-21-2006, 07:00 PM
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something like a pimp
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you should use a red lense on your light. not blue.
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