Recent content by WildFlower

dead snails Came across your post, I'm quite new to this site, but what an odd problem your having. What else is in your tank? Is all other life doing fine? Sometimes the life in our tanks can survive rather well in the environment that they "grow up in" and live in.. when you ad new life...

hmmm.. thinking bout that GrndHog.... I think I saw a post of yours a few days ago.. pic of 4 or 5 Mantis shown for comparison by a pencil? was that your Mantis pic I saw? only thing I can say.. my Mantis is a good 2 inches... big Mo Fo... now I think that after seeing this guy and trying...

Reefrunner, thank you very much for the reply... but go figure, that just confused me. Johnny has not put a hurting on any of my fish.. the appearance of him and the description in the article indicate a spearer.. however I had thought because of it's seemingly docile manner it was a puncher...

Finally figured out what rock Johnny was living in.. wow.. what a trip getting him out of the rock even with a pure RO water dip and a blast from a can and a 1/2 of club soda... he still clung to the rock like a trouper... lol., now I'm trying to save his ass in a bucket of tank water.. he...

Hey Srgetz... hate to say it but you can not act too quickly bout a mantis or pistol shrimp, have you heard popping or something that sounds like a coin from inside your tank.. but you can't tell exactly where the noise is coming from??? And Don't automatically blame the Domino.. lol. though I...

Where did you get your LR/LS from??? WildFlower

SW tanks are amazing.. I've only been into this for about 2 months, and I find myself in front of the tank with a flashlight looking for the new life and growth.. I can look at the tank in the morning.. then come home and find so much more then I saw hours before... it is metamorphosis before...

Thanks again Cookiemn.. I read a few of your earlier posts about the Mantis you had in your tank and saw that you thought one was responsible for the leak in your tank.. I put the trap in last nite with two halfs of Silversides as bait, this morning, one 1/2 was gone and nothing in the bottle...

Thanks Cookiemn Thanks for your suggestions Cookiemn, I will be setting up the trap this evening. I'm hoping there are not 2 Mantis in my tank as well... yesterday while feeding, in the blink of an eye I saw something swoop a tid-bit of food. I don't know how attached the Mantis get to their...

thanks ReefRaff... interesting site, I learned a lot. Shame that I have to do battle with this guy as they are actually kinda neat creatures, BUT I must. Now..... all I have to do is get Johnny Mantis out of the tank without maiming my tank and doing more damage then the critter can do, and...

Johnny Mantis does indeed exist.. I knew it was a Mantis.. damn, how I wish I was wrong... Just found it, no fish tale here, but this sucker has to be just under 2", freaked me out when I spotted him. I got a really good look at him, he's really quite colorful and, yup big ole' eyes 8O ...

Oh my, thank you for posting that pic GrndHog... I've been searching for Mantis/Pistol in my tank for a few days.. I can hear it/them? but had no clue I was looking for something that small. Damn things are elusive as hell, I can't even get an eye ball on one, much less catch one... how'd...

What I did recently was way too aggressive, but I took out my under gravel filtration, the cc base, plain and simple, I took everything out and cleaned the tank. I then added 115 lbs of LR with a very shallow live sand base, 1" at most. And If that were not enough I put my clown, 2 damsels and...

Not able to download a pic yet, so I will describe best I can. Not sure if this is a worm or what, but yesterday in the bottom corner of the tank coming off the LR, I could see stringers/tentacles? They are thin, long, brownish colored, they seem to kind of curl and move at their will, does not...

Don't think it was grazing crabs making that loud of a noise this morn.. soon as I head the noise I looked, I looked everywhere... saw nothing on the glass at all.. This evening I spent over an hour with a flash light looking at every corner, hole, crevice, hiding place I could find. Found...