Shrimp id needed
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Gubernaculum86
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Look like snapping shrimp of some kind. How big are they?
Pretty cool to have in your tank, will help to stir up the sand a bit. The only thing they can be a threat to is smaller shrimp. Some will form symbiotic relationships with gobies, coral and anemones.
Like all invertes they are intolerant of high nitrate levels and copper.
Pretty cool to have in your tank, will help to stir up the sand a bit. The only thing they can be a threat to is smaller shrimp. Some will form symbiotic relationships with gobies, coral and anemones.
Like all invertes they are intolerant of high nitrate levels and copper.
slitherbomb
Aquarium Advice Addict
I'm pretty sure they are mantis shrimp. They eat pretty much anything they can catch. Take them out and sell them to your lfs or put it in a sump or refugium.
Crepe
Aquarium Advice Addict
Looks like a pistol shrimp. It doesn't have a club or stabbing claw.
they dont lokk much like aa mantis shrimp
mr_X
Aquarium Advice Addict
they aren't mantis shrimp.
Thanks mr x. Found these two after I moved a 10lb piece of LR from a holding tank that has about 100lbs of rocki got off craigslist Good bet there are more in the holding tank, just have not found them yet. Holding tank has no sand so their only hiding places was in the rock.
Do u think It's safe to leave them in a reef tank? Zoos, polyPs, green stars, finger coral..... So far, all I have seen them eat is pellets.
Do u think It's safe to leave them in a reef tank? Zoos, polyPs, green stars, finger coral..... So far, all I have seen them eat is pellets.
mr_X
Aquarium Advice Addict
well, anything with claws has the potential to do damage. those claws aren't just for breaking up pellets! as far as being reef safe- only time will tell. If i found them in my rock, i'd probably put them in the sump. then again, with your coral lineup, you might welcome a little "pruning" from time to time. if they are easy to catch, i guess it wouldn't hurt to keep them and wait and see.
