If you catch him said:Frank's tanks has a gorgeous peacock mantis shrimp in stock. It made itself a burrow in the tank, and it comes out all the time looking for food. It's probably the neatest and most colorful mantis I've ever seen.
I tend to agree.
I have a pistol and it has never messed with the CUC. The clicking I hear is when one of the emerarld or strawberry crabs gets down in is tunnel. Then the pistol gets upset and runs them off. It is a blast to watch the pistol makes a clicking sound when it is hunting for pods also. Alot of people do not like them but I have found in a the research that they are good for keeping the sand bed turned. Just depends on what type of pistol. The plain white ones stay the smallest and are the least aggressive. Tigers will kill other shrimp if they are not kept fed. There are others that will kill fish. The most common of the hitchhikers are the plain white ones.
I had the same clicking noise but noticed that all my peppermint shrimp and clean-up crew were still alive and well said:I had this same thing going, but only after lights out. I looked and I looked and I looked, then figured out that it was 2 things happening:
The first was that after the lights went out (Nove Extreme T5s) and everything was cooling, the wood canopy and whatnot were popping due to the cooling.
Second: my astea snail also did some dancing on the glass after lights out, I'd never seen it before, but they twist back and forth really fast, which sometimes knocks their shells against the glass. It sounds just like a mantis or pistol shrimp. I didn't know what it was until I was looking right into the tank and one in front of my face did it. It really startled me!
But was I ever happy to know what it WASN'T!
[quote="I had the same clicking noise but noticed that all my peppermint shrimp and clean-up crew were still alive and well said:Second: my astea snail also did some dancing on the glass after lights out, "]
Are they good dancers? Break dancing, ballroom, twisting?????
Can't you make a fish trap out of a plastic coke bottle and catch him? said:lol, much easier said than done. I've had a rock crab in my 120 for at least 6 months. We've tried every trap method, and I KNOW where he is. Unfortunately, he is burrowed in a rock at the bottom of the rockwork :s I'd have to remove every piece of rock and coral to get to him. I've put shrimp this and meaty stuff that all around his home and he has yet to be caught. I can sometimes see him in a small hole and have tried to stab the bugger a few times, not successful.... yet.
[I]@BigJay wrote:[/I][quote="Can't you make a fish trap out of a plastic coke bottle and catch him? said:lol, much easier said than done. I've had a rock crab in my 120 for at least 6 months. We've tried every trap method, and I KNOW where he is. "]
Ouch, you almost want to send a mantis in there to get rid of it. But then you'd be stuck with the mantis.
Any dead snails or hermits from the rock crab?
Are they good dancers? Break dancing said:Just the twist, though they can almost do a shimmy!
Rock Crab removal:
Have you tried a lasso? I'm not kidding. I caught a small gorilla crab by making a small snare, putting it on teh end of a stick, tehn ticking the crab off by poking it with another stick until it tried to reach out. Slipped the noose over the claw, and I had him. Of course, dragging him out was a bit of a fight, but I won... eventually. (and without pulling his arm off too!)
[I]@Charlie wrote:[/I][quote="[I]@BigJay wrote:[/I][quote="Can't you make a fish trap out of a plastic coke bottle and catch him? said:lol, much easier said than done. I've had a rock crab in my 120 for at least 6 months. We've tried every trap method, and I KNOW where he is. "]
Ouch, you almost want to send a mantis in there to get rid of it. But then you'd be stuck with the mantis.
Any dead snails or hermits from the rock crab?"]
Yup, he likes snails. It's funny you mention that, cause the wife wanted to get a mantis then try to remove the mantis. I passed I really need to take care of it before it moves to another location though....