Payed over200$$ on cleaner shrimps so far and mantis keep taking them down

[A.G]

I paied over 200$$ in the past 6 months on shrimps since they keep disappearing in my tank. Untill recently a close friend of mine told me about this manis shrimp and that it could/will eat shrimps. Any way, I asked him to show me a pic of this mantis , I couldnt believe it . I have seen few of these shrimps in my tank when I first added the live rock, they were green kinda of 2-3" tall.I liked the way they looked but after the tank done cycling I thought the were eaten or simply died.

I could here soft clicking at night time and some times the clicking get louder and louder I get freaked out thinking that something was broken.
I need some serious advice here from people who had captured them befor since am not dealing with one mantis.

Thanks in advance,
A.G

 

[floridajhawk]

there are many different traps that you are able to fashion or if you know which particular rock they are in then things are even easier let me know, which it is and i can help

 

[terryhendrixson]

wait for him to go in his home and take the rock out and dip it in ro water he will exit emid.

 

[A.G]

Thanks,
As I mentioned there is more than one . If you tried to locate them you will go nuts since you will here clicking in from diffrenet places. I already tried to dip one rock in water with very high salinty the only thing that came out is a baby pistol shrimp I dont know maybe I dipped the wrong piece.

 

[csammis]

Try a freshwater dip as opposed to a hypersaline dip

 

[A.G]

Should I do this to all my rcoks?How long?Have any tried this befor?

 

[mightymouse]

do it to the rock you think the mantis is in just wait till lights out and see if you can see him and see which rock he goes into/comes out of also u may try usinga flashlight with a red filter from waht i hear it wont scare any life in the tank so you can view them at night

 

[srude]

Get a 2 liter bottle of coke, drink it. Cut the lid off about 2 inches from the top and discard the cap unless you won something. Clean the bottle really well and remove the wrapper. Put a fresh piece of Krill in the bottle, and then put the top in the rest of the bottle inside out, so that the top of the cap would face the bottom of the bottle, secure it in there with superglue or something. Place the trap in the tank and leave it accessable from the rock for the shrimp to walk into. Leave in your tank overnight. Perhaps you'll get lucky. Put mantis in a 5 gallon, or send it to some kid who has been dying for one and can't find it locally.

 

[EMG]

You could try putting a small triggerfish in your tank...Most will eat the Mantids.

 

[ATLDrtybird7]

they will also eat most every other shrimp as well... which may not help the cleaner shrimps much...