Finally caught one :)

Melbourne

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Hi,

I suspected I had mantis shrimp in both my 37G and 125G due to the fact I purchased a large quantity of aquacultured rock from Florida and the clicking noises at night and recently the demise of several of my larger porcelian crabs.

I set a bottle trap last night with a nice piece of shrimp. Right away I caught a few Nass. snails, but this morning I work up to find in my little trap :)


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This beauty is about 2 inches long and currently being housed in a small Eclipse six nano I have. Also caught in the trap at the same time were 2 large emerald crabs, one which lost a leg to the mantis at some point during the night and another nass. snail.

-Mike
 
Hi,

I plan on keeping one, if I catch more - which I'm hoping I will I'll post them up. Picking up another 60 #'s of LR tomorrow so I'm sure there will some in that batch.

-Mike
 
This does not appear to be the usual N. wennerae. If you can get some clearer pictures, particularly of the telson, I can probably identify it.

Roy
 
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