clicking sound

[beazer]

tonight I heard a clicking sound after adding more live rock. How do I find and catch the little bogger?

Beazer

 

[noschmo]

Beezer, its a bugger, not a bogger!

 

[noschmo]

Beez baby: here is the deal. Carefully take each piece of rock out of the tank and inspect. Put into bucket with tank water and aeration. Take it all out and hope that the little ""bogger" is left over to be netted. Otherwise, live and let live. Use thick rubber gloves, these little boggers bite.

 

[mastou]

I have heard some where that you (if it is inside a rock) can put your rock very briefly into freshwater, that will make the little "bogger" come out from the rock so you can catch it, can some one confirm/deny this, and do you risk the little bogger will die?

/Magnus

 

[30mini]

You can do the freshwater dip and hope he comes out... but some are very stubbern and will not come out for their life! You may have to try soda water and spray it into his hole, that will push him out

 

[beazer]

how long for you dip it into the freshwater and will it harm the other stuff on the rock?

 

[Thurge]

Short answer is as long as it takes... but if its been 5 minutes I would move on the the soda water trick. Definately should come out after 10 minutes though.
As to it damaging the other inhabitants, it depends on what is on the rock. If yo have corals glued to the rock I don't think I would dip the rock. If you mean thecoraline algae, and bacteria that make it live rock I wouldn't worry, the coraline will come back and most of the bacteria is deep in the rock and shouldn't be affected by the freshwater