Snail Graveyard

[Beverly]

About an hour after lights out, I took the flashlight to the dead snail tank. Found an itty bitty light coloured crab, about 5mm across its back, about 2" from the mouth of the trap. As well, at the other end of the tank, found a large hairy legged crab with black claw tips. Inside the trap were flying bugs, two or three about 2mm long and white, and one large dark one about 4mm long. I've seen the large dark one before and had it IDed by Dr. Ron at RC as a harmless detrivore. All in all, a pretty exciting evening

This morning, though, I got quite a haul out of the trap. TWO crabs, one a 2.5cm across the back red eyed crab and the other a 1cm across the back crab that had become a midnight snack for the larger one. Have had red eyed crabs before and didn't have a dead snail problem though.

Also this morning, the bivalve shell is missing and the two dead snail shells that were there for the past few days have been moved.

Chris says he just heard some clicking in from that tank So, going on the premise that there's a mantis in there, how do I catch it?