Stephane Cote
Active Member
Hello everyone.. i need your input. I think i know what is hiding but i need ur advice/opinion.
for the past 5 days i've been hearing 'clicking' randomly in my tank at night. I did notice this before in the past (every now and then) randomly during the day as well. The clicking is loud, kinda like a clip springing back or like snapping of figures.
I did a bit of research and most sites I've scanned mention either a pistol shrimp or a "shutters" mantis. Now i had 2 hitchhiker mantis shrimp when i got my LR (over a year ago) and that was taking care of. I believe it is a pistol shrimp. The reason i say that is i have not lost anything "yet" and my shells are still intact on dead snails (probably because they were overturned and got eaten by my hermit crabs.) I tried to locate said 'unknown' clicking and i have located it to be in one area of the tank. Cant be sure 100%. I tried looking for it but did not spot the animal. I do spot check my tank very frequently since my bobbit worm with a red light and have not seen anything out of the ordinary indicating anything else was in there.
I thought it was the heater/equipment but i dbl checked everything and it's not originating from there.
i guess if it is a mantis ill eventually see things disappear and shells crack and at that point it should be big enough for me to spot it. Should i get a watchman goby and see if he 'finds' the pistol shrimp. if it is, are they harmful?
Thanks
Steph
for the past 5 days i've been hearing 'clicking' randomly in my tank at night. I did notice this before in the past (every now and then) randomly during the day as well. The clicking is loud, kinda like a clip springing back or like snapping of figures.
I did a bit of research and most sites I've scanned mention either a pistol shrimp or a "shutters" mantis. Now i had 2 hitchhiker mantis shrimp when i got my LR (over a year ago) and that was taking care of. I believe it is a pistol shrimp. The reason i say that is i have not lost anything "yet" and my shells are still intact on dead snails (probably because they were overturned and got eaten by my hermit crabs.) I tried to locate said 'unknown' clicking and i have located it to be in one area of the tank. Cant be sure 100%. I tried looking for it but did not spot the animal. I do spot check my tank very frequently since my bobbit worm with a red light and have not seen anything out of the ordinary indicating anything else was in there.
I thought it was the heater/equipment but i dbl checked everything and it's not originating from there.
i guess if it is a mantis ill eventually see things disappear and shells crack and at that point it should be big enough for me to spot it. Should i get a watchman goby and see if he 'finds' the pistol shrimp. if it is, are they harmful?
Thanks
Steph