Mantist Shrimp

[Kotobuki]

Have been hearing some clicking in my tank recently and guess wat happen today?

While I was stonning in front of my tank, a mantist shrimp swim pass under my nose. The feller is somewat 2cm in length, transparent with red dots. It stop and look at me for a moment and zoom into the bunch of rocks.

Darn, dont even have enough time to react.

Anyone here ever experience this and noe wat I can do to lure it out so that i can trap it??

[blueheaven]

Mantis shrimps are really hard to catch but you can try making a trap for it.

If you know the hole it stays in, you can squirt some kalk paste and catch it when it jolts out

Just a guage for the difficulty of catching one:

I had to use a vacuum cleaner to the highest power to suck out a 3cm specimen in my previous 2ft

[FuEl]

Mantist shrimp..Dentist shrimp..Lol.. It's mantis shrimp. Anyway I don't think most (if any) mantis shrimps you find are transparent with red dots. It might be a pistol shrimp? Pistol shrimps make more noise than mantis shrimps.

[Kotobuki]

Ehhh.... no idea leh? looks more like a mantis den a prawn to me so think its a mantis. Can see its triangle head with two big eyes. Have been flipping the rock but still cant find it.... darn.

[mUAr_cHEe]

I had to use a vacuum cleaner to the highest power to suck out a 3cm specimen in my previous 2ft

in WATER?!!?

[monster]

Mantis Shrimp......a good helper to clear left overfood. When i started my tank 2 years ago....i have 1...caught from Batam....then was so small abt 7mm, i didnt know it was mantis. Sometime later...abt 6 months, it grew to abt 3cm and the claws are showing well.

Now i have 3.....guess they multiply. they are abt 6cm. OMG they are huge.

Yes i do hear clicking/clamping sound often but at least i know they are fine.

I had this idea of removing them initially, but now they are living happily with the rest fo the community Shimps ie peppermin/fire/clear/ and my tile fishes too.

i decided to keep them.

[Flame-Tail]

my tank also has clicking sound so I just inserted a diy mineral water bottle fish trap with some bait inside ...Hope it works.