help possible mantis shrimp

[crazy bout salt7]

ok heres my problem i think that i might possibly have a dreaded mantis shrimp. about a month ago one of my cleaner shrimp dissapiered. i thought that maybe it just died but then like 2 weeks later my male coral banded shrimp had all of its legs and claws ripped off and he died. Then last night my female coral banded shrimp was fine when i woke up this morning she was dead looked like she was crushed and one of her claws was ripped off. i hope that i do not have one. please write back with any ideas. i dont have nething that i think could cause this.

 

[joe's reefer]

what fish do u have.and mantis shrimps dont really do that they pound things more or less

 

[ocellaris_keeper]

Yo! It's a mantis shrimp or some other type of bothersome culprit. If you know which LR it lives and and which hole, reomve the LR and pour a bit of ginger ale into the hole.
It'll run right out and you can remove it quite easily.

 

[crazy bout salt7]

I have a yellow tang, coral beauty, pygmy angel, lawnmower blenny, scooter blenny,2 firefish, and a 6 line wrasse. i have nothing that could do that. i dont even have any other crabs besides a cleaner shrimp and my coral banded shrimp was a nice size. i just dont understand it i think it is a mantis no other signs of it though i saw there i think the body was dragged same place as my cleaner shrimp that disapeared so i will check there.

 

[galina]

Hmmm... I'm not sure if a mantis is the culprit. How much LR do you have? And Joe... have you ever even had a mantis? Ofcourse one could do that. There are two different kinds of mantis shrimps. Slashers and Bashers.. well, that's what some people would call them. I'm not an expert, but I found one of these buggers once. If you look in the archives theres some really good posts on this.
Galina

 

[galina]

You might also want to take as red flashlight and check out your tank at night. You'll be surprised at what you will see. A regular flashlight with a candy rapper works fine.
Galina