intruder among the tank

[neptune]

i discovered last night this guy is liveing in a rock ...how he survives i dont know? but hes about 3" and all my emrald crabs are gone ive been hearing
click"click"click"click"click" for over a year..hes in my 90 gal reef i couldnt get a pic yett.....but he looks like this same colors gree blue really nice
orange blue spots.....?????????

 

[Tito]

Mantis

 

[neptune]

yea" i thought i had a pistol but...noo

 

[neptune]

he will not come out of the rock ive never seen him out ...only moving throught it..

 

[inkblue]

:sgrin: E V I L

 

[fali]

HOLY CRAP!!!! A couple of months ago i put baby sally light foot crabs and i also hear clicking noises. I keep hearing those click noises when i had them. It only stopped when the crabs were all gone. I thought m tank was cracking! How did you find this mantis? Was the lights off or on?

 

[bad coffee]

if you can find the rock it's in and pull it out, you can get him out.

Get a 2 liter bottle or 2 of seltzer. Not tonic, not club soda.

do a water change, and keep the old water.

find the mantis rock, and pull it out. Hold it over an empty tub, and dump the seltzer on. Swish it around the rock, and watch the mantis pop out. sometimes it takes a little, sometime it takes a lot.

Once the mantis is out, swish the rock in the old tank water, and put the rock back in the tank.

take the mantis out and put in a container with some old salt water.

good luck
B

 

[rookie07]

you should be able to bait him out. I thought if you tied chunk of food to a rock, he will go get it, catch him then.

THIS IS WHAT I THOUGHT, NOT FACT.

 

[Bob 1000]

You'll never get him out of a fully stocked reef...Sorry..

 

[bad coffee]

I did.
used the process i listed above. Then he went into his very own 7gal bow.

B

 

[Bob 1000]

Forgot to write just kidding.. I kept one in a 12 jbj for a year... Then he disappeared I guess the blue devil he lived with ate him some how...

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

watch Your Fingers!!! They Don't Call Them Thumb Splitters For Nothing!!!

 

[Chapz]

The Evil Mantis Shrimp.
Good Luck!

 

[fali]

I don't know which rock he's in cause i never saw him. Only heard clicking noises. This clicking noise only happenned when i put some baby sally light foot crabs in. After they were gone i never heard that clicking noise again. I only realized this when reading on MR and people catch mantis shrimps after they heard "clicking noises". So this is just an assumption but this is TOO much of a coincidence. This was after 6+ months after i set my tank up i added these crabs too. Before that i never heard the clicking noise. It would be hell for me to look for him cause i have so much LR. If there was a way to bait him that would help alot.

 

[neptune]

hes chilling....he peeks out every now and then and winks at me...hes in a huge rock
supporting my other rocks.......

 

[crox99]

Neptune

if you can catch him alive please let me know......

 

[carpediem212]

Damn, good luck in catching that thing. After you catch it and don't want to keep it, you can just eat it. Alot of asians eat it. You know hes been eating good. Put some garlic and butter and call it a meal. Gone fishing.

 

[crox99]

Damn, good luck in catching that thing. After you catch it and don't want to keep it, you can just eat it. Alot of asians eat it. You know hes been eating good. Put some garlic and butter and call it a meal. Gone fishing.

Not only asians but also Italians eat them. They are very good but a PITA to eat them.

 

[Lubu]

Just came back from a trip to HK and boy those Mantis Shrimps are delicious!
It's actually very easy to peel off the shells, the trick is the peel from the side

 

[crox99]

Nice pic Lubu and yes they are delicious. Their meat is sweeter than lobster.