possible tiny baby mantis

[GreenBabe5]

Just recently got a little one piece of mushroom that had migrated from a petstore rock to the ground and they let me buy him but in his bag was a baby shrimp. Clear still very young but crazy fast and almost looks like a grasshoper the way he sits....don't want to release him into the tank if he's a baby mantis, i'll go take a pic and then post him.....noticed in the store that several tanks had tiny tiny shrimp babies so small i could barely see them, so i saw this mushroom in a tank i didn't see any babies but i guess i was wrong, will repost in a couple min with pic.

 

[GreenBabe5]

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<img src="http://www.geocities.com/greenbabe5/mantis.jpg">He's all curled in this pic, hard to get a clear shot

 

[Timmy]

This is no baby mantis, it is a species called Amphipoda.
They are very present in reef tanks and a very good food for all Dragonets like Synchiropus splendidus, Synchiropus stellatus, and so on.

 

[GreenBabe5]

ok thanks just making sure

 

[55semireef]

lol. I am sure a mandarin could appreciate that.