Run for my money!

[Wildinside]

Ok, heres the issue. I have a mantis in my 55gal reef tank. I put him in there because my only other tank at the time had a peacock in it and when I saw him at the store I had to have him. So I have a new 24gal aquapod set up now and I want to put him in there.
The problem:
He is one reclusive little guy! I VERY rarely see him or even here him so sometimes I think he is dead but today I heard him again and saw his tail sticking out of his place in the LR. I can yank apart my tank and pull the rock out he is in but thats a pain due to corals on the LR and such. I have seen the typical traps that people use (see through bottle) but I am almost positive he will not enter it. I have only seen him away from his hole one time not including when he first entered the tank. Not only that, I have a cleaner shrimp who would not be able to contain himself. He would run right in there and get stuck and hes one of my favorites so I want to keep him out of harms way.
My question is this:
With out taking apart my tank, or using the see through bottle trap, is there another way. I am almost positive there is not but I thought that maybe someone has come up with another technique. Its a prayer but its worth a shot.

 

[DanInSD]

Nope.

 

[Wildinside]

scratch that, I tore my tank apart Just got finished a minute ago and the mantis is happily in his new home Now I need to try and figure out what he is. All I have is a camera phone or else I would post pictures of him. Maybe I should get a camera...
So far I am thinking he is a G Smithii. His meral spots are surrounded in white with a dark center, could be black or dark purple, hard to tell. He does have some red at the base of his rapts too.

 

[justinl]

with such dark centres of meral spots, it's probably G. smithii. N. oerstedii have lighter purple merals with the white ring. Does it have two small pink/red knobs (at the base of the uropods) on its tail? If so, definitely G. smithii

 

[Wildinside]

I have been trying to look on his telson for pink spots. I don't see any so far, he does seem to have one spot of green on each of his "feeding appendages." Not sure where exactly the uropods are at but so far I don't see any pink in the vicinity of his/her tail. He is out and about now in his new tank so I will try and get a better look.

 

[Wildinside]

I think I have seen the pink spots on his tail, is it only visible when the tail is fully extended? If so then its gotta be a g. smithii. For 20$ at the lfs it was a steal
Now I need to sex him/her.