Clicking in my tank???

[POLARBEAR0871]

I have a cleaner shrimp a snail two nems ten blue legged crabs and a starfish and everyday I hear this clicking noise I'm curious of what it is. Does anyone have an idea

 

[bribo12]

Either a pistol shrimp or a mantis shrimp. If you see inverts disappearing it is a mantis

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

But I don't have either of them in my tank that's the problem

 

[bribo12]

They could have hitchhiked in with live rocj

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

I have a skunk cleaner shrimp is it maybe that??? I'm pretty sure I would have seen a mantis shrimp or a pistol shrimp walking around my tank

 

[aquandrew]

I have a skunk cleaner shrimp is it maybe that??? I'm pretty sure I would have seen a mantis shrimp or a pistol shrimp walking around my tank

you would be surprised at what you can't see in your tank.... they stay hidden very well and can be taken out by a trap or sometimes people have to tear their whole tank apart to get them

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Oh Jezzzz is a pistol shrimp a bad thing to have there's no way I have a mantis because I still have both my nems and the clicking started about a month ago I've had the tank going for several months

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Oh wait I did get a new piece of live rock close to a month ago and I'm pretty sure my blue legged crabs are somehow disappearing

 

[aquandrew]

i don't think mantis are known for harming anemone, in fact i have heard there are a few species that clean themselves on anemone. if your blue legs are/were disappearing, my money is on a mantis. a pistol shrimp wouldn't harm anything

 

[bribo12]

i don't think mantis are known for harming anemone, in fact i have heard there are a few species that clean themselves on anemone. if your blue legs are/were disappearing, my money is on a mantis.

I agree mantis wont go after nems. Pistols usually aren't potent enough to kill inverts. Check your tank late at night with a red light. Maybe you will find it

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

A red light so like a laser or something but I'm sure I would've seen a mantis shrimp crawling or moving sand in my tank though but my blue legged crabs I think are disappearing but I'm not sure because I have holes in alot of my rock and they like to hide but I haven't seen a few for a while

 

[Bectan01]

I have had a 55g set up for two years and have always heard a clicking, now it is so loud at night time and I have never seen the culprit. So it is possible that it's there and you've never seen it. I don't have invert anyway because of my puffer but I have lost a couple of small fish I have set raps for it but to no avail...

 

[Themonsterisme]

I have a tiger shrimp and it clicks at night as well

 

[Keithhjs]

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean one isn't there. They stay well hidden during the day. Like previously stated look for it at night with a red lens flashlight.

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Ok I'm searching now but haven't heard clicking I heard two clicks earlier when I was right next to the tank but I just searched every possible hole in every rock and didn't see anything

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Also if I wanted to trap it how would I be able to do that

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Ok for some odd reason the clicking stopped but at night I hear it but for the past week or two haven't heard it as much as when it first started

 

[huma-huma]

clearly you have a baby loch ness in your tank

 

[MJSerik]

Mantis shrimps are a pain. Be careful if you have your hands in the tank

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

I always have my hand in there that's why I want to catch it haha I don't want to be hammered or stabbed by it haha but I would love to keep it but I don't have another tank for it