My trip the lfs.

[joe____17]

I went to the lfs today and saw some interesting things. They had an unusual decorator crab that i rarely see. It looks like a spider decorator but its arms are alot longer. They had green spotted and the green mandarins. They also had a few mantis shrimps, only $9. They were housed by themselves. They also had pistol shrimps. I dont have any experience with them, but are they bad? What wont they get along with? They also had a shrimp i didnt know what it was, looked like a mantis crossed with a pistol shrimp with wierd colors, red and white.

 

[indy2009]

What color was the crab you saw? I have one it's suppose to be a decorator crab it has lONG legs and shape like a triangle comes to a point on the center top and a rust color.

 

[joe____17]

Originally Posted by Indy2009
http:///forum/post/3000833
What color was the crab you saw? I have one it's suppose to be a decorator crab it has lONG legs and shape like a triangle comes to a point on the center top and a rust color.

Yeah that's the kind. I rarely see those.

 

[hlcroghan]

Originally Posted by joe____17
http:///forum/post/3000681
I went to the lfs today and saw some interesting things. They had an unusual decorator crab that i rarely see. It looks like a spider decorator but its arms are alot longer. They had green spotted and the green mandarins. They also had a few mantis shrimps, only $9. They were housed by themselves. They also had pistol shrimps. I dont have any experience with them, but are they bad? What wont they get along with? They also had a shrimp i didnt know what it was, looked like a mantis crossed with a pistol shrimp with wierd colors, red and white.
Pistol shrimp are not bad unless something falls in their burrow. Then they will kill it and eat it. Generally they are pretty safe if you spot feed them anyway. You will rarely see it unless it's tunnel is right by your tank front because they don't come out often and live underground....

 

[eric b 125]

the long legs and triangle body sounds to me like you saw an arrowhead crab. i have one and it's great. doesnt bother anyone.

 

[birkhoferfan15]

My arrow crab killed two peppermint shrimp, but other than that he hasn't bothered anyone

 

[crypt keeper]

pistol shrimp if you get the correct one will match up with a shrimp goby as its buddy. Its a really neat unity between two different animals. The mantis you saw was probably a peacock mantis. They are badass!

 

[indy2009]

yeah I have one it's about 3 inches long, so far it keeps to himself, when I first got him he hung out in the back of my tank with one of my scallops, tonite I watched him hanging out in the corner of my tank within my LR. I have to say it's the most unattractive crab I have ever seen.

 

[indy2009]

Originally Posted by Eric B 125
http:///forum/post/3000891
the long legs and triangle body sounds to me like you saw an arrowhead crab. i have one and it's great. doesnt bother anyone.
Arrow Crab..NO!!! this crab is 2 inches across about 3 inches long with long legs, NO way its a arrow crab. did some research It looks like a Longhorn decorator crab the whole body is FUZZY,the top of the shell comes to a point and has some strange growth on it's top shell. NO WAY that is a arrow crab. Legs are not as long as arrow crab legs.

 

[joe____17]

Still have no idea what that shimp was, cant find it on this site or any others ive been too.

 

[salt210]

if you can try and get a pic. dont know how far the drive is

 

[salami trigger]

Boy..seems like yesterday a Mantis shrimp was a big pain when you got one in with your rock...lots of money to buy specialty traps to get rid of them....now they sell them...just like yesterday a Labradoodle would have been considered a mutt...now.....

 

[flower]

Originally Posted by SALAMI TRIGGER
http:///forum/post/3002038

Boy..seems like yesterday a Mantis shrimp was a big pain when you got one in with your rock...lots of money to buy specialty traps to get rid of them....now they sell them...just like yesterday a Labradoodle would have been considered a mutt...now.....
++1000

 

[joe____17]

Lol, The other shrimp i saw was white with red stripes and its head looked more like a mantis head but fatter if that helps. It didnt look like it had any large claws at all. Im going tommorrow so they might still be there.

 

[txfishman]

a candycane pistol shrimp?

 

[joe____17]

Checked this sites list for shrimp, found none that look similar.

 

[joe____17]

Ok, so i went to the lfs to take a pic of the shrimp i couldnt identify and they were all gone! Not one was left. They had about 10 or 12 on Friday.They pretty much had nothing left worth checking out.

 

[crypt keeper]

Originally Posted by SALAMI TRIGGER
http:///forum/post/3002038

Boy..seems like yesterday a Mantis shrimp was a big pain when you got one in with your rock...lots of money to buy specialty traps to get rid of them....now they sell them...just like yesterday a Labradoodle would have been considered a mutt...now.....
is that your clown trigger in your avatar pic? man is that thing gorgeous and huge.

 

[salt210]

joe
any site that you go to wont necessarily have every animal available listed, have to search around