Mike's sharp eye

[SWSaltwater]

Sahuarita Mike was looking at one of my coral systems(240 gallon) and found a mantis that we were super lucky to catch without tearing up everything. Its a pretty one but I have not ID'ed it yet. With post picks tomorrow if I remember the camera. For now I will throw him in the catch all of "Peacock" as most with green red and blue go to. He is only about 4 inches though. What a catch!!!!!! I was wondering were all my snails and sea hares went, and why the 40 pepermint shrimp I put in there stopped eating the aptasias!!!

 

[Satori]

I think I might have a mantis or something in my tank. Every night after the lights go out, I hear loud snaps. I've looked and haven't seen any cause. I've unplugged pumps and other stuff, but the pops continue, usually 3 or 4 before I go to bed. No fish have come up missing though. I don't see any decrease in my larger snails, but my smaller nassarius are about gone.
This has been going on for at least 5 months.
I do have a pistol shrimp. Could he be the culprit?

 

[Zach Franck]

Pistol shrimp will make that noise pretty well. Hence the name "pistol" shrimp. I would suspect him of the noise first, but after seeing that mantis yesterday, it makes one worry.

 

[Satori]

Yeah, I guess it was a silly question on my part. :lol:

 

[SWSaltwater]

Yeah the mantis was small but I would suspect it would eat your pistol as well if you have one. I never heard snaps in the take but with all the pump noise who knew lol. He was a thumper thank god so no fish lost. Gonna have to ID him today. Pretty sure he came in recently on a rock of kenya tree from a phoenix reefer that moved. Before that I had tons of snails in the tank.

 

[SahuaritaMike]

Talk about fast I spotted the mantis and in less than like 20 seconds Rob jumped up grabed a net moved the lights picked up the rock and scooped out the mantis. And some people say catching a mantis is hard .

 

[majestic sea life]

what color are the spots if above the smashers? And also what kinda rock did he come in. And the easy one, what color is the mantis lol.

 

[SWSaltwater]

Gonodactylaceus falcatus

 

[lovelylinda]

eeeek!!!!

 

[owsi]

Sounds like something you treat with "Penicillin"

 

[SWSaltwater]

he is cute, hope he is not too shy. Set up a 7 gallon nanofor him.

 

[kscrimshaw]

Ewwww! He is almost like something out of Aliens! I mean, yes Rob, he is very cute!

 

[majestic sea life]

he is awsome. I had an G. falcatus 2years ago, she was awsome.

 

[scubabum1983]

if you would like to get rid or trade him id trade some frags for him.

 

[zoanthid2009]

wow rob what a great pic it looks kinda familiar especially the 1st one