mantis shrimp

[Questin]

After getting back from a trip, 3 of my fish are MIA. The only fish in that tank that I have left is a very large purple tang. The MIAs are a 6 line, a Lipstick Blenny, and a Pygmy Angle.

After talking with my buddy, he said I must have a predator, and I was very doubtful at first, I have not put anything in that tank for a while, but then he said that mantis shrimp make a clicking noise, and unfortunately I have heard a clicking noise in my tank at night for a while.

Anyways, I am going to buy a trap today and see if I can catch what might be in the tank, and if it turns out to be a mantis or pistol shrimp, I will not want to keep it. So with that said, if I do catch something like this, would anyone want it?

 

[roushracer]

Yes!

I've been looking for one for a while now, and have a tank all set up for one, so I'd gladly take him off your hands.

I'm sorry about the missing fish though, and good luck on catching him!

 

[Questin]

I'll post if I get him in the trap.

 

[murfman]

Questin, research trapping them, they are very smart. Clicking Mantises are usually smashers and go after the snails and hermits. Stabbers usually take fish by spearing them, I am pretty sure they don't click.

 

[reefkoi]

the clicking noise is almost always a pistol shrimp, I really doubt they wouldn't have killed all those fish.
My guess is they either jumped or died of some other cause.

 

[lfduty]

I have a mantises and have never heard him make a clicking noise
but im not going to say they dont. I have a pistol shrimp thats all ways clicking. im with reefkoi I dont think they jumped but died and they got eaten by the snails and hermits and bristleworms..
I lost a fish this way and was thinking it jumped untill I seen the worms eating it.
Good luck with the shrimp what ever it is..