crgeltn
Member
I have a 30 gallon mixed reef. I recently posted in the discussion forum that I accidentally dropped some palaemonetes vulgaris (common shrimp) in the tank while feeding. Needless to say they have been breeding and I now have thousands. Most never make it to over 1/4" as they are picked off by just about all livestock in the tank fish, anemones,ect... Ok now for the problem, while adding some additional carib. live rock about 6 months ago I pulled out a small 1.5" mantis and put him in his own tank right under the 30gal. No problem there. He made lots of noise (clicking) and just being a happy mantis. Well yesterday I just noticed something else in my 30 when the lights were out. This morning I pulled out a 3"+ peach female mantis. I guess I never noticed as I thought the noise was from the other mantis and nothing was missing or disturbed in my tank. Again not a big problem and kinda cool. I just noticed about 6 new babies about .5" all with their little homes in my 30 and eating all the baby shrimp and pods they want (not cool). I bet tonight when the lights go out I find more than the 6 or so babies. So now what do I do? They have a constant source of food are too small and too fast to catch and there are probably lots more that I have not yet seen. Yes they are mantis, I do know the difference between them and pods and other types of shrimp. I will try to get some pics but it will be kinda hard since thay are soo small and my camera stinks. Should I be worried?
