re creature I found in the dark

[bullit67]

If it is that fast is sounds like a mantis shrimp to me they are lightning quick kind of freaky how fast they can move. Oh yah if it is Mantis whatch your fingers they are not called thumb splitters for nothing.

[lobsterboy]

watch out that it doesnt climb out and get you at night, haha, just jokes.

[Leah]

Thanks lobster boy the tank is actually in my bedroom.
yuck anyone need a piece o rock nice coraline(free) you just have to grab it out.

[lobsterboy]

[marie]

Unless your losing livestock leave the poor critter be. We pay big bucks to put living rock in our tanks and then do everything we can to kill all the life off.

I had a mantis shrimp in one of my tanks for 2 years and barely even noticed him, he never hurt anything. In fact for all I know he may still be around I never did figure out why he disappeared

[High tide]

Originally Posted by marie

Unless your losing livestock leave the poor critter be. We pay big bucks to put living rock in our tanks and then do everything we can to kill all the life off.

I had a mantis shrimp in one of my tanks for 2 years and barely even noticed him, he never hurt anything. In fact for all I know he may still be around I never did figure out why he disappeared

Hear,hear!!!

[don.ald]

consider it part of your clean-up crew. if their well fed you won't even notice them. i have had 3 mantis show up over one year. first time i paniced and got rid of it. the second one is in my sump. and for the third, he is very interesting. lives in a rock and has a trap door that he opens daily looking for food. then every day he closes the trap door (a small pebble he places to fill the hole) . i rarely see him, just know he still there because the trap door is opened and closed daily.

[Leah]

That was also a thought I had, pretty sure its not done anything naughty and with the
piece of rock he's in is at bottom of some very large not to mention supporting pieces.
I may let him hang and see what happens. But when my prized fish go mia can I have
your blessing on trapping it. He, glad that you said you had one makes me relax a bit. I
agree I do not relish the thought of cature and kill. Pretty nasty, mostly cause I am
scared.

[brizzo]

Wonder if I can have a second tank at work with a mantis....