How do you clean a tank that has a mantis shrimp?

[dzovi]

I don't currently have a mantis shrimp but I've been really interested by them. I was wondering though, how do you clean the glass and inside of a tank that has a mantis shrimp? I wouldn't want one to attack my hand.

 

[rwhhunt]

magnetic floating glass cleaner

 

[sharkdude]

long scrapper

 

[ReneX]

Very carefully.

 

[likeavillain]

how bad do they hurt when they attack. are you guaranteed a bloody finger? stitches?

 

[Ms. K]

Probably not if your mantis is a smasher rather than a slasher. It stings to be hit by a smasher, but you'd survive

 

[Uriel]

Probably not if your mantis is a smasher rather than a slasher. It stings to be hit by a smasher, but you'd survive

There are smasher mantis more than capable of breaking fingers.
Likewise, there is one case of an infection setting in from a blow from a smasher, that ended with an amputated thumb/finger.

Watching my O.Scyllarus break rock apart for use in his burrow dissuades me from putting my hand in there.

-Ron

 

[Uriel]

I use a scraper, as well as several sizes of the 'floating magnets' to clean my tanks.


-Ron