Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

I have what i am guessing is a mantis shrimp in my 26 gallon tank. I will occasionally hear a clicking noise but not as loud as a pistol shrimp. I also cannot seem to keep a snail in this tank. I just purchased 6 more snails and already see two empty shells the second day. The other snails were dropped in other tanks and are alive. I firmly believe this is my last mantis needing to be caught. Well diggin around on message boards i ran across these pics. Could you imagine this sucker in your tank.

wow he looks MEAN.

Look that this guy. I would honestly say i would love to have one this pretty in it's on tank. He is quite a speciman

My god that's huge!

Melissa has taken over my mantis tank.. and it has corals in it now. Now that there is more rock in there.. I never see him. I'm gonna have to flush him out so I can put some snails in there. He has a little hairy crab buddy that he likes to whip his butt every now and then, but hasn't managed to kill him yet. I think they're neat.. pretty personable for a shrimp. We feed him with a skewer , he darts out of his hole and grabs a hold of the piece of shrimp or scallop trying like heck to get it off.. if he can't he smacks it a couple of times, and you can feel it in the handle of the skewer.

I am sorry...but I think they are disgusting.....can't help it! They remind me of cockroaches!

YUCK!

Elizabeth

I don't care for the cleaner shrimp climbing all over me.. I'm always yelling "Get off me roaches!". I haven't had the mantis try and get on me though

My CBS is very "sneaky". I will go in there to do my routine maintenance and I have to curve my arm around because it is tight in there getting around the corals. He waits till I am in a bad position where I cannot jerk my arm up then starts coming at me. He is very smart and I try to stay away from him. Not sure what his intentions are but I doubt they are good.