Fish Trap

[ThurlowR]

Just wondering if anyone has a good fish trap I may borrow. Marcia this morning woke me up saying there was what looks to be a Mantis in the tank. When I finally got up to check it was gone. She did though record a very blurry video with her iPhone which had a creature with movements that appeared to be a Mantis but to blurry for a 100% ID. I will post this video later but this may also explain what happened to 2 Anthias and a firefish over the last month. Funny thing is I haven't added any rock in a very long time. Oh fun :bounce3:

Heres a picture of the beast

 

[ade]

Hey Roger how big is the mantis? I have a small trap but wouldn't want the mantis to laugh at it trying to catch him, hey that might work get him rolling over with laughter then catch him with a net.lol

 

[ThurlowR]

Hey Roger how big is the mantis? I have a small trap but wouldn't want the mantis to laugh at it trying to catch him, hey that might work get him rolling over with laughter then catch him with a net.lol

Ill have to check with Marcia as I didnt think to ask how big. I wouldn't think very big though as we've never seen it until now, and I havent added rock in over a year.

 

[ThurlowR]

Its around 2"

 

[dadyoj21]

rodger

I have a bristle worm trap and a fish trap you can borrow, but I have found the easiest way to rid yourself of a pest is a turkey baster full of boiling water. I never had a mantis but had a couple of xanthid crabs that were killing my livestock (crabs, snails, shrimp, and fish). I was able to trap the first only because a shrimp ran behind the trap and he went after the shrimp into the trap. I tried many nights to trap him and he would never go into the trap all the way until the shrimp lured him in.
at that point I was just using a baited baby food jar on fishing line.

When I finally got him I was so happy but then a couple months later I found another and after several late nights on weekends trying to trap him I had given up when someone suggested the turkey baster method and that proved to be much easier. I had to give him several repeated doses but he had cornered himself under a rock.

Check with a flashlight an hour or so after the lights go out with the room dark to try to locate and identify your pest. Do not shine the light directly where you are looking as this will tend to make the pests run for cover and they can be hard to locate as they tend to stay hidden in the rocks. Look ahead of the light.