Mantis ?

[new2]

My 30 Gallon has been up about 3-4 months and I think I saw a mantis shrip. From the pictures I've seen on the web I'm, well, 80% sure . . .

I hear none of the tell tale "clicking" sounds , however had a goby dissappear recently.

Anyway, is it possible that this guy just "appeared" after 3 months??????

 

[traveller7]

Very possible. Could have been eating leftovers for quite some time. What type of rock do you have?

 

[new2]

It's a mixture of Fiji and Key - all aquacultured and fully cycled when I started the tank - No Gulf -

 

[Dexter1334]

If you have a mantis you will hear plenty of clicking. My hearing is not the best and I still hear it from each of my three tanks. My 125 and 40 have small mantis which haven't bothered anything in the tank. I have an adult in a ten which eats the occasional snail.
If you have a mantis you will hear it.

My mantis are all from TBS gulf rock and Hang out in caves under the rock, and holes in the rock. I can see them when I feed. They poke their heads out and grab whatever food comes near. It looks like a praying mantis poking out.

Mine, at least, start roving the tank when they are adult, about 2 to 2 1/2 inches. Until then they seem to stay in their caves.

 

[werew]

Not all Mantis shrimps make that "clicking" noise.

There are 2 main "categories" of mantis shrimp

1. "beaters" (they make a clicking sound when beating hard objects with their club-like appendages)
2. "Spearers" (their appendages are not like clubs, but more like barbed spears), these do not make a clicking noise

 

[givemeabrk]

Hey if you find him and dont wanna keep him, well im looking for one

Let me know

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[Hwarang]

most hobbyists get a basher ... most spearers make burrows in the substrate and prey on passing by fish. bashers live on rocks and prey on animals inhabiting the LR, hence the hitchhiker thing.

my mantis never clicks

 

[raoul]

Hi, my husband and I are pretty new to this hobby, but we found ourselves with a mantis not too long ago. We've set up a little 10 gal for it. We've named it Thumper. We didn't hear any clicking until we moved him into the new tank, he was in the other one for probably 4 weeks maybe 6. His second night in the tank he was clicking away! it was great to hear him acting like a mantis
There's some good resources on line for them, very entertaining and enlightening, do a search on Mantis Shrimp and you should get a few hits.
Good luck!
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