Cleaner shrimp question

[clpotter72]

Do the skunk striped cleaner shrimp make loud clicking sound? I keep hearing random clicks and pops in my tank and can't trace it back to anything??

 

[saxman]

You may have a hitchhiking pistol shrimp in your LR.

 

[bang guy]

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Originally Posted by saxman http:///t/394803/cleaner-shrimp-question#post_3514209
You may have a hitchhiking pistol shrimp in your LR.
I agree. None of the Cleaner Shrimp species can make a loud noise.

 

[flower]

I heard a loud clicking sound in my tank, and I found a big margarita snail that was snapping it's shell against the glass to upright itself. I was worried it was an electronic gizmo making the sound...whew.

 

[clpotter72]

But don't you think I would be able to see it?

 

[bang guy]

There's a little green Pistol Shrimp, I forget the species name, that lives in rocks. It will rarely, if ever, leave its rock so you wouldn't see it unless you cracked open the rock.

 

[clpotter72]

Wow.....so one may never see it?

 

[jpercy]

Pistol Shrimp or mantis shrimp can both be hitchhikers on live rock. You may never see them. I have a pistol shrimp in a small tank, and it dug a tunnel to live in in the substrate. The only reason I know it is there is because I can see the tunnel along the edge of the tank. Kinda like an ant farm.

 

[saban2013]

Hey Bang, would that be Alpheus Djeddensis (Djibouti Pistol Shrimp)? I have run across them before.