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10-18-2004, 04:45 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
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 |  Mantis shrimp clicking
I think, I caught myself a mantis... Well, at least I found it early so I can find it without doing any harm to a nice tank 
But what I wanted to know is the volume of the clicking. It almost seams too loud to be made by a small shrimpy...
Does that sound about right?
well, I gotta take the rock out anyway because when I searched the rocks from all angles with a flashlight I found a pretty big hairy crab in one of the deep holes. I wanna get that one out too...
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10-18-2004, 05:14 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
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| Re: Mantis shrimp clicking
hm, I hope that thing doesn't brake my glass
and I haven't seen him, just heard him. I just saw that little crab.
There was an article at the Dr. Fosters and smith page. About putting rocks in a bucket with 1.040 salinity for about a minute. They say that critters flee from the rock and then you can kind of look through them and see, what it good and what not. I guess I'll try that. | |
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10-18-2004, 05:27 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Melbourne, VIC,Victoria
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| Re: Mantis shrimp clicking
.............and, as I have been told many times, watch out for your fingers :-)
John
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10-18-2004, 05:29 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
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| Re: Mantis shrimp clicking
yeah, I hope I'll have a chance to do that this week.
I'm gonna be gone over the weekend and my family comes to visit me from germany on tuesday and they stay for 2 weeks. I don't think I'd have the time to do it then.
I've heard of mantis' smashing glass, but they can't smash the tankglass, can they? | |
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10-18-2004, 05:33 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Melbourne, VIC,Victoria
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| Re: Mantis shrimp clicking
[quote author=hoodoo link=board=Inverts;num=1098153941;start=0#5 date=10/18/04 at 20:29:43]
I've heard of mantis' smashing glass, but they can't smash the tankglass, can they?[/quote]
Well Urban Myth says they can, maybe someone else can find some real evidence of this actually happening :-)
John
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10-25-2004, 05:45 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Norwich, CT,Connecticut
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| Re: Mantis shrimp clicking
You may have a pistol shrimp also. That is what I had found as a hitchhiker in my liverock making all the clicking. | |
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10-25-2004, 08:26 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Mantis shrimp clicking
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