hansolian Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 I've had my nano for a year now, and I always thought I had a mantis shrimp (lots of empty hermit shells with holes near where the back would be) then I moved. And my hermits have been staying alive since then. A month ago I saw all these tiny crustations swining zig zaggedly hopeless against my current, and my watchman goby ate them as they flew by. Yesterday I found a half dead mantis shrimp caught in my pre filter. So my question is, Do I have a bunch of them in my tank? Do they often breed in the home nanos? Lastly, are there any natural predators that eat mantis eggs, larva, juviniles? Emerald crab? Pistol shrimp? Thank you, Any help appriciated. HANSOLIAN Link to comment
hansolian Posted December 31, 2002 Author Share Posted December 31, 2002 NO ONE KNOWS? should I post in the general section, invert section, or maybe a different site? Link to comment
Physh1 Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 When they are very young fish like 6 lines may eat the larvae. When they are free swimming like that not many things that are reef friendly will eat them. Your watchman will finish them off too. I'm not sure how you got them as you'd probably know if you had a pair of mantin shrimp in there. I probably wouldn't worry about it yet as they are likely to get picked up by you flow and filtered out the way you had happen already or eaten. In order to keep it from happening again (which will happen) you'll need to find the parents and remove them. Cameron Link to comment
gobies Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 The tiny crustaceans your goby was eating were probably amphipods or copepods, rather than baby mantis shrimp. No one has been able to raise mantis shrimp in captivity, including the world experts on the critters. The fact that you found the mantis in your prefilter means your mantis problem is probably over, unless you really do have more than one of them. Link to comment
hansolian Posted January 20, 2003 Author Share Posted January 20, 2003 Found another one! This will be the 3rd. I'm not crazy these are mantis shrimps, this 3rd one was heathier than the other two and got away. I found him by my filter using his 2 little clobbers cleaning his head. I keep finding them in the corner by my filter must be a good low current and good food supply. I have the last ones body, I dried him out to get a good look, defentaly a mantis. Any more help would be appriciated. Link to comment
Tracker Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 did you here and poping noises from your tank, after my last LR purchase i am now hearing these noises and suspect i have a mantis. Link to comment
gobies Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 Popping noises may be a pistol shrimp, too. Link to comment
Lunchbucket Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 can you get a pick of the one you dried out? how big are they? i am still betting they are pods but never know. pods look like little mantis Lunchbucket Link to comment
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