I know, I know...its been asked...but

Well...ok is there a big difference between lets say a mantis shrimp and anything else clicking...the most i hear is 1 to 2 click at a time...most pplz say mantis click like 5 times...and pistols do it 1-2 times? i can never findout where it is coming from...its a night only and whenever i hear it i run and cant find ANYTHING!!! its driving me crazy....its not even every night its like every other night...also mosly its 1 click...only sometimes its more than that...i hope its not the floof creaking and gona break under the weight lol....well thx

 

I had the same thing in my 90. I could hear the 1-2 clicks at a time and everyone said it was a pistol shirmp, but I never found a shrimp. When I tore down my 90, I found a mantis though! It had escaped my main tank and was in the fuge. I hadn't heard it for a while, so I guess it was just chilling in the sump.

Mike

 

arg...dammit...i cant do anything...all my corals r attached to the rocks and my colt and kenya r attatched to like 4-5 main rocks ...arg...i bet hes the one that killed my male scotterblenny...i had 1 female then i got 2 females and 1 male...only the females r left

 

You can always try a fish trap. I think they actually make mantis traps too. Probably just smaller.

 

I know that must be frustrating to you. I had a pistol shrimp and couldn't figure out what was causing the noise. I have a little crack in the UR corner of my tank and everytime I heard it I thought my tank was cracking more just knowing that the water was going to come gushing any minute. Thank goodness it was just the pistol shrimp.

Cindy

 

i hope mine is a pistol...i kinda think it is...only because most of the time i only hear 1 click...god i hope.......

 

[quote author=Bruce link=board=General;num=1106023727;start=0#2 date=01/18/05 at 18:10:12]Ibet hes the one that killed my male scotterblenny...i had 1 female then i got 2 females and 1 male...only the females r left[/quote]
It is rare for smashing mantis to take down fish so I don't think that's what did your scooter in. Now, if your hermit crabs and snails started to die and they had holes in their shells, then I'd say yes, it's a mantis but a dead fish does not a smashing mantis make

 

thats good so the clicking ones dont kill fish??? well...my hermits and snails can goto hell...i hate then anyway they r always knocking over my coral lol...welll...i cant say i hate them...but better them than my fish....lol only one i love is my staggy...w00t...o ya...um what should i do with 2 bubble algaes that r like 1/2 the size of base balls??? lol...i was scared to touch them and now they r giants...

 

[quote author=Bruce link=board=General;num=1106023727;start=0#7 date=01/21/05 at 00:54:26]thats good so the clicking ones dont kill fish??? quote]
It takes a crafty or huge one to do so.....I would lean very heavily toward pistol shrimp. Ive probably said this alot but i unload ALOT of LR @ work every week. I love going through the bootom of the styro boxes and finding all the neat critters. Out of 4 yhears in fish stores ive found aroung afew dozen mantis shrimp.....i find AT LEAST 4-5 snapping shrimp in each of the cured and alot more in the uncured boxes (particularly in the jakarta rock). Enough to feed my trigger nothing but live pistol shrimp, urchins,and other crusties I salvage from LR shipments. Pistols are much harder to find than mantis shrimp as the mantis has well developed eyes for hunting.....the pistol is basically blind and rarley ventures into the open.

 

hmm cool, where do u work? is fairfield close to Los Angeles?