djfrankie
10/23/2001, 10:22 PM
A little story first:
I've been fighting this sucker for almost a year. It's had the pleasure of eating countless numbers of snails and who knows what else. So I decided to go hunting and bought the mantis shrimp trap commonly sold a LFS. I believe it's called the "Xterminator", not sure though.
Many times it went in/out of the trap retrieving whatever foods I will put in there. I went through adjustments several times until I finally gave up.
Just last week I decided to go at it again and set up the trap accordingly and once again missed. Last night I set up the trap once again but guess who got caught in it?
My purple tang (@ 3") stuck half its body in there and got stuck. Good thing I was home and noticed it right away. The only solution to get him out was to break the trap and that I did.
Being real upset at the whole situation, I was now on hot pursuit.
I decided to go a different way and try the water bottle cut in half and the drinking half inverted into the bottom half.
Bam! :p 10 minutes later I had the sucker trapped in there and now you can see a picture of it.
http://server25.hypermart.net/djfrankie/mantis.jpg
By the way I caught it using silversides.
Now the only question remaining is : Who wants it? Notice this is not the colorful one. It measures about 3".
Let me know as I don't plan to keep it alive for more than a couple of days.
You can email me here (dj_frankie@hotmail.com)
I've been fighting this sucker for almost a year. It's had the pleasure of eating countless numbers of snails and who knows what else. So I decided to go hunting and bought the mantis shrimp trap commonly sold a LFS. I believe it's called the "Xterminator", not sure though.
Many times it went in/out of the trap retrieving whatever foods I will put in there. I went through adjustments several times until I finally gave up.
Just last week I decided to go at it again and set up the trap accordingly and once again missed. Last night I set up the trap once again but guess who got caught in it?
My purple tang (@ 3") stuck half its body in there and got stuck. Good thing I was home and noticed it right away. The only solution to get him out was to break the trap and that I did.
Being real upset at the whole situation, I was now on hot pursuit.
I decided to go a different way and try the water bottle cut in half and the drinking half inverted into the bottom half.
Bam! :p 10 minutes later I had the sucker trapped in there and now you can see a picture of it.
http://server25.hypermart.net/djfrankie/mantis.jpg
By the way I caught it using silversides.
Now the only question remaining is : Who wants it? Notice this is not the colorful one. It measures about 3".
Let me know as I don't plan to keep it alive for more than a couple of days.
You can email me here (dj_frankie@hotmail.com)