Is anyone familiar with what other kinds of creatures one might get on LR? This thing is translucent, it has a smooth swim stroke (or whatever you call it) ie-not jerky, it is narrow, about 3/4 inch long. I've seen it twice now, once swimming away from the sand after I'd done a dip and once today as I was looking at the rock it had swam to. It just kind of regally walked down the edge of the rock (about 1-2 inches of cat-walk) untill it went to the other side. Right after I saw him I heard my clicking creature from what sounded like the other side of the tank. Any ideas?
buggy ideas?
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At the top of the newbie forum's post list, there should be a file entitled 200 or so creatures identified---look up Isopod, Cirolanid: bad news, and should be removed if that photo matches your creature. Clicking, however, could be a pistol shrimp---a good guy; or a mantis shrimp---not good with fish, but valued by other reefers as a pet...drat, I just checked, and the file isn't currently displayed. I *wish* they'd keep that up as a sticky! Anyway---google cirolanid isopod, pistol shrimp, and mantis shrimp, and you should get some pix on the web---and probably some sites good to bookmark.
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i would start by looking here.
http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchhikers.html
http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchhikers.html
I get this feeling that it may be a baby mantis. Look what I found while checking that bug:
The Stinky Water Method:
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1. Soak a piece of bait shrimp in a cup of saltwater from your tank for several hours or overnight at room temperature. The water in the cup will get cloudy and stinky!
2. Remove the shrimp and bait the trap with it. Place the trap on the sand bed after lights out, allowing the scent to drift throughout the tank.
3. Take the cloudy, stinky water and filter it through a coffee filter. This should remove most large food particles that would otherwise feed the Cirolanids.
4. Pour a small amount of the stinky water into the front of the aquarium near the glass, preferably where the current will send it to the bottom near the trap.
5. Start trapping Cirolanids! I've seen Cirolanids attach to the front glass in as little as 10 seconds after adding the stinky water. This was only two minutes after lights out, so this scent is obviously a very strong attractant. Before I started using baited traps Cirolanids typically did not appear until at least 45 minutes after lights out. Some will quickly find their way into the trap, but I'm usually ready with my turkey baster to capture the smaller ones. I've found that even if I fail at the first capture attempt, if I add a little more stinky water, they are back on the glass within 30 seconds.
6. Remove the trap from the tank before going to sleep. I would guess that if Cirolanids had several hours, they might eventually find the hole and escape from the trap.
Will this trap work for other creatures? I tried something like this before and it didn't catch anything. I think the idea of taking it out sooner might make a huge difference. Plus there's the ammonia spike...
The Stinky Water Method:
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1. Soak a piece of bait shrimp in a cup of saltwater from your tank for several hours or overnight at room temperature. The water in the cup will get cloudy and stinky!
2. Remove the shrimp and bait the trap with it. Place the trap on the sand bed after lights out, allowing the scent to drift throughout the tank.
3. Take the cloudy, stinky water and filter it through a coffee filter. This should remove most large food particles that would otherwise feed the Cirolanids.
4. Pour a small amount of the stinky water into the front of the aquarium near the glass, preferably where the current will send it to the bottom near the trap.
5. Start trapping Cirolanids! I've seen Cirolanids attach to the front glass in as little as 10 seconds after adding the stinky water. This was only two minutes after lights out, so this scent is obviously a very strong attractant. Before I started using baited traps Cirolanids typically did not appear until at least 45 minutes after lights out. Some will quickly find their way into the trap, but I'm usually ready with my turkey baster to capture the smaller ones. I've found that even if I fail at the first capture attempt, if I add a little more stinky water, they are back on the glass within 30 seconds.
6. Remove the trap from the tank before going to sleep. I would guess that if Cirolanids had several hours, they might eventually find the hole and escape from the trap.
Will this trap work for other creatures? I tried something like this before and it didn't catch anything. I think the idea of taking it out sooner might make a huge difference. Plus there's the ammonia spike...
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