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The title is just for fun but removing the mantis shrimp has been painful and without success. Thanks to the reefers here who adviced me to get rid of two Mantis shrimp piggybacker, I decided to take action. First I did the inverted water trap. Failed. I bought this trap from a LFS. (See picture.) Tried it in the tank. Failed. Thankfully I saw the live rock in which the shrimp was residing. I took the rock out and placed the trap in it with food. (See picture) Failed. This morning, after reading some articles, I tried to put cold freshwater. Failed. Poured non-sweet carbonated water. Failed. My last resort is to pour away the water and leave some puddle of water inside the pail. When the live rock loses moisture, the shrimp will come up and hunt for the puddle to keep it alive. So the theory goes. Of course I thought of pouring boiling water into the live rock or smashing the rock to hunt for it. But these are too drastic an action. This is my greatest fear - while lifting the live rock out, the mantis shrimp swam away from the hole and is now laughing at me from the tank. Like a scene from Alien 1,2,3 and 4. Maybe Sigourney Weaver with her blowtorch gun might help haha. Any better solution? Thanks!!! Harry F.
