ExoticWonders
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Okay, where to start? I came home from work yesterday and saw that for the second day in a row my large crocea clam just looked like it was ****ed at something. Well I started going through my tank to figure out what was wrong. I pulled the big guy out to give him a once over, and what do I find? A VERY small shrimp.
I was about to put the shrimp and clam back into the tank thinking that it was mysis or something similar, when something made me look twice. The shrimp had an absolutely huge claw that was tipped in yellow, almost neon yellow. The shrimp is all clear, you can see his/her insides, and is only about 1/4 to 3/8 or an inch long!
I know it is a pistol/mantid of some kind because when I put a pair of small tweezers next to it, it let out a loud click and shot backward! My friend even heard it from across the room!
I tried to take a picture but my darn camera could not focus on a clear shrimp that small. Any thoughts?
And YES I am going to keep him. I put him in a three gallon eclipse nano that I had running awhile ago. Set it back up real quick with water/rock/crushed coral from my main reef. I put in 5 very small hermits, 4 small sand sifting snails, 2 smallish mexican black turbo snails, and two small astrea snails, along with about 7 coral preditory stars of verious sizes. My quess is that all of these are to big for this little shrimp to eat, so I am wondering if it has been eating copepods from my tank. I did put a couple of small thawed mysis shrimp in there with him just in case.
I was about to put the shrimp and clam back into the tank thinking that it was mysis or something similar, when something made me look twice. The shrimp had an absolutely huge claw that was tipped in yellow, almost neon yellow. The shrimp is all clear, you can see his/her insides, and is only about 1/4 to 3/8 or an inch long!
I know it is a pistol/mantid of some kind because when I put a pair of small tweezers next to it, it let out a loud click and shot backward! My friend even heard it from across the room!
I tried to take a picture but my darn camera could not focus on a clear shrimp that small. Any thoughts?
And YES I am going to keep him. I put him in a three gallon eclipse nano that I had running awhile ago. Set it back up real quick with water/rock/crushed coral from my main reef. I put in 5 very small hermits, 4 small sand sifting snails, 2 smallish mexican black turbo snails, and two small astrea snails, along with about 7 coral preditory stars of verious sizes. My quess is that all of these are to big for this little shrimp to eat, so I am wondering if it has been eating copepods from my tank. I did put a couple of small thawed mysis shrimp in there with him just in case.
