drakken
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Once upon a time in a 55 gallon reef tank...
I hear clicking in my tank and thought I had a mantis shrimp. My hermit crabs and snails were disappearing and I tried to catch the mantis to no avail.
Needing to replenish my clean up crew I ordered a reef package from SWF and after acclimation they were added to the tank. My wife and I sat by the tank to watch all the new hermits, snails, emerald crabs and cleaner clams settle in and go to work on the tank.
We were enjoying watching our peaceful tank with the clownfish in their anemone, the chromis schooling together, the potter angel picking at the rocks, the orange spot goby perched on a rock and the foxface foraging.
While watching the tank we were discussing the dreaded mantis lurking in the shadows waiting for darkness to arrive and prey on the fresh supply of treats from SWF. My guy at the LFS thinks the clicking is a pistol shrimp and not a mantis but who is eating the hermits and snails?
All of a sudden the goby swoops down, grabs a small hermit crab and disappears in the rocks! "Did you see that!" my wife cries!
Who knew that the small cute little goby was actually the big bad wolf in the tank?
Tomorrow's story: "The Lionfish, the Witch and the Goby Trap"
I hear clicking in my tank and thought I had a mantis shrimp. My hermit crabs and snails were disappearing and I tried to catch the mantis to no avail.
Needing to replenish my clean up crew I ordered a reef package from SWF and after acclimation they were added to the tank. My wife and I sat by the tank to watch all the new hermits, snails, emerald crabs and cleaner clams settle in and go to work on the tank.
We were enjoying watching our peaceful tank with the clownfish in their anemone, the chromis schooling together, the potter angel picking at the rocks, the orange spot goby perched on a rock and the foxface foraging.
While watching the tank we were discussing the dreaded mantis lurking in the shadows waiting for darkness to arrive and prey on the fresh supply of treats from SWF. My guy at the LFS thinks the clicking is a pistol shrimp and not a mantis but who is eating the hermits and snails?
All of a sudden the goby swoops down, grabs a small hermit crab and disappears in the rocks! "Did you see that!" my wife cries!
Who knew that the small cute little goby was actually the big bad wolf in the tank?
Tomorrow's story: "The Lionfish, the Witch and the Goby Trap"