Mantis shrimp

[danielfish]

how do i no i have one...a little while i heard clicking noises but dont anymore....if i do have one how do i catch it????

 

[gasguzzler]

There are traps sold for them at about every LFS. Check em out. I think they sell them on this site, too.

 

[nitram]

Can anyone exsplain what the mantis shrimp does and does anyone have a picture of one?

 

[gasguzzler]

It is a very colorful and beautiful shrimp on the average about 3-4 inches long. They posess a spine they "

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" small fish with and have a reputation for doing the same to aquarium glass- and sometimes breaking it. They have also been known to damage the aquariast's thumb if they get too close. Mainly cosidered a menace, they usually show up in live rock and make themselves known by rearranging LR and LS, eating smaller fish and shrimp, or the tell tale clicking after "lights out".

 

[nitram]

Ouch!! not to good. has anyone had them hitchhike into there tank and if you have tell us the story.

 

[kracker]

I had 2 hitchhike on some lr i got from swf.com.Royal pain getting them out.Dont bother with the trapes if you have one.Just find their home and take that rock out.I just crush the rock with a hammer till i find it then i celebrate with a cold one.....

 

[nitram]

LOL anyone else?

 

[jacknjill]

i think i have one because i can hear some clicking. still trying to figure out how to get it out though.

 

[bigdogzack]

:scared: :scared: I got one as a hitch-hiker in some live rock once...traps didn't work...finally figured out wich rock it was calling home (by shinning a flashlight into the tank at night), removed the rock and put it in fresh water, when the little

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came out I pulverised him (pay-back for all the fish and inverts he got in my tank)..

 

[jay_blu]

If you dont kill the littel guy I want him please! I would aperciate on I have been getting live rock and I cant seam to get lucky enuf to get one. let me know if you catch him alive and what not. I would really really like to have one. thanks

 

[jay_blu]

oh and a good trap thats easy to build its a watter bottle with the top cut off turned over and shoved back in the bottle!!!! put some krill or what ever in there and in a cupple of nights you should have him! good stuff let me know.

 

[thesamm]

i have read that they are as powerful as a .22 and have the ability to break 1 1/2 inch glass and have been known to

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a full grow trigger so hard it rips him in half....i donno about u but i definatly dont want one in my tank

 

[jay_blu]

I am building a 15 gal 5/8" Lexan tank I really dont know if it will be able to brake it or not. there are two difrent types of mantis theres slashers and bashers. I dont really want a slasher cause they will cut your thumb I want a basher they do have the force equil to a .22 just as long as no one taunts it with ther finger I dont think that it will break the tank. I hope

 

[jacknjill]

you should usae acryllic. i dont think they can break that. or maybe i read something wrong i dont know for sure though

 

[thesamm]

i agree with JnJ...i wouldnt take a chance with one of those things and glass....

 

[jay_blu]

lexan is acrylic the strongest, almost bullet proof if im not mistaken. and 5/8" is extramly thick for just 15 gallons. ushally you would use just 3/16" thats what I built my fuge out of. and a 240 that im working on is out of 1/2" with a lexan bottom, its 8'x2'x2' finished dimenshions.

 

[clown52]

Are you sure that it is a mantis? It could be a pistol shrimp.
Mantis shrimp only snap when they hit something, a pistol can snap whenever. I had a little green pistol shrimp hitch hike into my tank, he is about 1/3 inch and his big snap claw is about the same size as his body.

 

[clown52]

i have read that they are as powerful as a .22 and have the ability to break 1 1/2 inch glass and have been known to

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a full grow trigger so hard it rips him in half....i donno about u but i definatly dont want one in my tank
There are many different species of mantis shrimp. Few are this powerful.