SRC Member Flame-Tail Posted July 2, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 2, 2005 Found it while I was taking out some of my rocks to restack..Can anyone help to identify and is it harmful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Eric Posted July 2, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 2, 2005 Found it while I was taking out some of my rocks to restack..Can anyone help to identify and is it harmful. Its a mantis shrimp..............number 1 killer for small fishes and shrimps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Flame-Tail Posted July 2, 2005 Author SRC Member Share Posted July 2, 2005 Its a mantis shrimp..............number 1 killer for small fishes and shrimps. Thanks ..good thing I removed it from my main tank then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Alvin Tan Posted July 2, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 2, 2005 bro...remove it...mantis are harmful..u may want to isolate or even kill it...my 2 cents Quote view my 2ft tank thread update here!! http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36399 Tank Dimension: 24'x15'x19' with black silicon. All round 8mm. Equipments: Return Pump : Hailea HX6540 Skimmer/Chiller : Sicce 2500lph Skimmer : Weipro 2011 Lightings: 4xT5s HO..2 20,000k & 2 Blue Pro(Aquaz) Retrofits Chiller : Resun CL280 Auto Water Top Up Life Stock: More then 35kg of figi rocks Blue Tang, Powder Blue Tang, Bristletooth tang, Clown Tang, Yellow Tang, Purple Tang, Flame Angel, Six Line Wrasse, Sunrise Dottyback. 2 Cleaner Shrimp Green Bubble, Orange Yuma, Hammer, True Octopus, Acans, Frogspawn, Green/Orange Cyannaria, Red Prata, Red Open Brain, Star Polyp, Acan Enchinata Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mantis Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Confirm mantis. I should kn...it's my nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueheaven Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Arrgghh...my nightmare!!! Quote But if you tame me, we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world... You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Keep our hobby sustainable, participate in fragging NOW CHAETO Farmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member diabolus Posted July 3, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 3, 2005 nice mantis... looks like a N Wenns to me. its probably harmless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV-65 Posted July 3, 2005 Share Posted July 3, 2005 Found it while I was taking out some of my rocks to restack..Can anyone help to identify and is it harmful. Congrats for having removed this pest from your tank... but beware not to use your hand to handle it... Quote People do not plan to fail; Often they just fail to plan... Wat I do to prevent myself from tearing my hair out... My stress remedy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member minsmarine Posted July 3, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 3, 2005 Congrats for having removed this pest from your tank... but beware not to use your hand to handle it... Can u hand as long as u don't mind numb your finger and u might lose your finger. Don't believe, try using chopstick to touch him, he will respond than u will feel IT.......................... Quote Life is like a peice of Uncured Live Rock [ from LFS ], you never know what you gonna get......... Ocean Gump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Eric Posted July 3, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 3, 2005 Found it while I was taking out some of my rocks to restack..Can anyone help to identify and is it harmful. Throw it in your sump & feed it with live fishes every week.........quite nice to see it attacking the prey. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member hamannbmw Posted July 3, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 3, 2005 why waste, eat it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member ervine Posted July 3, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 3, 2005 i tot some people hammer it to pieces then feed it back to their fishes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member subxero Posted July 3, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 3, 2005 i tot some people hammer it to pieces then feed it back to their fishes? contribute back to the society as something more useful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member LoReNsIa Posted July 3, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 3, 2005 bro hamma.. how to eat.. it soo small.. haha.. Quote Reefing is like a Relationship, Once you fall in Love with it, You will Love it for Life... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Kelmen Posted July 5, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 5, 2005 If you don't want it, chk with LFS, can sell or donate to them. Some LFS sell them, as some of them quite beautiful. I believe yours too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Flame-Tail Posted July 5, 2005 Author SRC Member Share Posted July 5, 2005 If you don't want it, chk with LFS, can sell or donate to them. Some LFS sell them, as some of them quite beautiful. I believe yours too. Ha Ha ..I already dumped it in my 1 ft damsel tank..Together with all thoase crabs that i got off the live rocks when I bought them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Kelmen Posted July 6, 2005 SRC Member Share Posted July 6, 2005 hehe... a "specialize" "devil" nano tank? You can watch "War Of The World (of Nano Tank)" LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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