WTB Mantis shrimp

Fish · #1 07-31-2005, 08:33 PM

Hello all. I would really like to find a small mantis for my two gallon. I would need to get rid of my four sexy shrimp if I got one, so I'd give them to you if you wanted. Thanks.

- Chad

Fish · #2 08-05-2005, 11:57 PM

... you know you've got one it your tank right now...

Can't you hear that clicking?

You really should reply...

Chad

Willow · #3 08-06-2005, 01:38 AM

or a pistol.

Fish · #4 08-06-2005, 04:02 AM

Ha, ok you have a point... but I really hope it's a mantis

Willow · #5 08-06-2005, 05:27 AM

we found the source of the clicking in zer's tank when we broke it down, it was a pistol the size of an egg!!1

OCDP · #6 08-06-2005, 05:32 AM

hey willow (sorry to go off the subject) but I have been hearing clicks in my tank that has been setup for a year now.. and I just started hearing clicks a few weeks ago.. no new LR added, just corals and frags.

Do you think what I am hearing could be a pistol shrimp ?

(thanks to the click i now sleep with plugs in my ears... no lie)

I think its safe to say its no mantis though... I hope

Fish · #7 08-06-2005, 05:53 AM

Try doing a search - I have read before that the frequency of the clicks helps indicate what is making them. I might be wrong, but I was under the belief that a pistol shrimp will be silent most of the time but only snap when it needs to stun its prey, ie 3 or 4 loud clicks. On the other hand, mantis' are supposed to be much more frequent becasue they are digging burrows through the rock. HTH

- Chad

AndyL · #8 08-12-2005, 08:14 PM

Hey chad, check pm's

Andy

Fish · #9 08-13-2005, 06:13 AM

I would like to publicly thank Andy for grabbing a hitchhiking mantis shrimp he saw while at Gold's today! I have been searching on bulletin boards and talking to local shops and online venders without any luck up till now. Thanks to Andy, I now have a mantis that happens to be exactly what I was looking for!

Gracias,

- Chad

AndyL · #10 08-13-2005, 08:47 AM

Anytime Chad, I owed you one.

Andy