Thanks for your help. I hope you are right about the little guys. Are they something that become part of the food chain? I wasn't going to add fish for a couple more months but I would like to add a couple more cleaner shrimp. Is is possible for the mantis to co habitate nicely with inverts...
The problem we have is we cannot seem to find the big one but I think I have a pretty good idea of where he is and of course it is one of the bottom foundation rocks that has a lot of holes and projections. I will have to dismantle everything to get this rock out. I agree, I don't want to...
I have another question. The LFS told me that I should absolutely not wash the LR with seltzer. Can I take all the rock out and rinse it with either tap water or DO water. I tried baiting it out and he didn't bite though the snails had a hay day. Other suggestions to get rid of this guy...
As a total newbie to this hobby (we started our tank in April), I would say that our biggest problem has been the stow aways that have come in with the live rock. If I was doing it again i would boil the rock before I set it up. We have taken out 4 large predator crabs, all about 2 inches from...
I would much prefer a turtle!! The crab shells looked broken, a couple being broken in half and the snail shells look smashed. I did spot something today that I hadn't seen before and it was about 1 inch long, it moved fast and was "walking" along a ridge in the LR. We haven't been brave...