Well my pic wasn't as clear as the pimps, but looks exactly the same.
If you don't want to buy a trap, i read a post about a guy who made his own.
Track down where he sleeps or is renovating your LR, get a smallish glass jar like a spice bottle, and sit it near him with some brine shrimp in it. Have it close to the tank glass, approx the distance of your magnet glass cleaner. I have seen my mantis and snowflake have a blue over a shrimp (prawn) once
So when he comes down into the glass to feed you can slide the magnet over the entry to the jar.
Dont know if it will work, but thats what i read.
They can grow pretty big. Here is a clearer pic of mine. And a pic of some dude holding a huge one.
Good luck ive been trying to catch or stab mine for ages.
New Tank Owner... strange species
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BrenLou7734 - Posts: 9
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wow, I love that colourful one!!! it looks like some sort of mythical chinese dragon!! Ok wel this morning, I saw him STARING at me from within the rocks, so got the rock out, put it in a container, and got a syringe thing, and some freshwater, and I flushed him out. So hes not so smug any more!!! I told him to my fish shop, and they said they cant sell him, they will have to kill him. Im so upset, but there was nothing else I could do.... :o(
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BrenLou7734 - Posts: 9
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Oh Here is a pic of him hiding in the rocks,
and him sulking (and pretending to be dead) in the capture container
and him sulking (and pretending to be dead) in the capture container
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schigara - Posts: 468
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Why would you need a new trap to catch him? He is already in a perfect trap, his hiding hole. Pull out the rock he is hiding in and get rid of the rock or dig him out of the hole he is in.
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Snowboss4492 - Posts: 2098
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it's to bad they are so dangerous, they are such beautiful creatures............well then again so a women and look how dangerous they are .....lol
if i ever find one I'll set up a nano tank just for him , then every time i have a fish,crab nem, or anything that does bad things in my display, i'll put em in with the mantis to teach em a lesson......my own little saltwater woodshed
Boss
if i ever find one I'll set up a nano tank just for him , then every time i have a fish,crab nem, or anything that does bad things in my display, i'll put em in with the mantis to teach em a lesson......my own little saltwater woodshed
Boss
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blueshoes2208 - Posts: 1077
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ha schigara always makes ppl feel stupid haha, on the other hand i guess i could be blessed to have no come across one so far in my tank
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BurgerKing7704 - Posts: 106
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I watched some videos on youtube, there dirty little bastards arent they?? I wouldnt want one because of their behaviour, but they do look great.
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mmisselr01 - Posts: 14
- Joined: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:23 pm
does the crab just have hair on its legs if so it could be an emerald crab and they are reef safe and will eat algae and extra food the other one might be a pistol shrimp
