Pistol Shrimp or Mantis or ???

ICE

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When I 1st saw it, it was hitting a rock upside down, with it's head!. I could only see the tip of it and was so shocked that it was there that I didn't get a good look. It scurried away pretty fast. We have been hearing popping from the tank & thought for months it was a problem with the filter or...? It sounds like snapping your tongue against the roof of your mouth. It pops about every 3-6 seconds sometimes. I have no picture (can't even really see this guy). He is hiding in a hole in the live rock also.
 
Well, i know both pistol and amntis shrimps make popping noises. Have u noticed any dead inverts/fish?
 
We use to have a Coral Banded & a Blood shrimp (2 diff. times) and each one of those disappeared. We now have a cleaner who we thought disappeared but now comes out several times a day. (He has been in there about 6 mths) Only things going on with fish is that we had a Regal Tang jump out while not home (out of the tiny part open in the back of the tank!) and a Scarlet Hawkfish did the same (just before the Tang). No fish have been found dead other than a clown who we knew was looking sick. She got caught in the filter. Now as of this writing we have seen 2 Mantis shrimp!
 
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