Mantis Shrimp question

[seb187]

RC i need some help i have run into a delema..


About a week ago i went to my LFS... and bought a bunch of cheato for my DIY auqa clear fuge... all is well and good.. until last night when the power went out for a moment at my house..

Well when the power came back on .. all the light pumps and everything that should have come on did.. but i noticed something new swimming in my tank...

after i fished it out and looked at it .. I realized it was a baby mantis shrimp.. and the only place it could have come from was the macro.... now im afrid there might be more then one in there... and the next one i wont catch as early and he will make it into the rock work ..

should i ditch the macro???

is there a way to clean it to ensure there isnt another one of these buggers in there??

some other advice that i didnt come up with?

[revkev6]

doubt it was a baby mantis. probably a large amphipod from the cheato. post up a pic

[seb187]

Im 99% sure it was ..

i couldnt get a great pic of it but i will post up what i have when i get home from work ..

[revkev6]

even if it is, (which it almost certainly isnt) mantis are territorial so they would not be together.

[weimers75]

Also doubt its a mantis, they're in rock, not chaeto. Could even be another type of shrimp.

[seb187]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/seb187/mantis1-1.jpg

that is as close as i can get to it ...

the macro lens on my camera sucks...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/seb187/mantis1.jpg


there is the full size shot...

if its not a small mantis...then it is a LARGE pod...

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the tank that the macro came out of has alot of rock in it as well.

[weimers75]

Its a pod - isopod, not copepod. Copepods look like grains of sand...isopods are obviously much larger. I've seen plenty that big in my chaeto in the sump.

[Tylt33]

Amphipod, not a mantis.

[dave2184]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12312495#post12312495 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tylt33
Amphipod, not a mantis.

Agreed I have a ton of them they are good to have in there.

[minimasterflash]

PODS! watch out!

[NanoReefWanabe]

definately amphipod...i thought isopods were much smaller then copepods...anyway....

good little scavenger/ detrivore...and yes you will find hundreds more of them...i have them almost 3/4" of an inch large in my overflow and sump....i am sure there are some big guys running around my tank too..