while cleaning filtersocks

[lilrobb]

(And I wash them with boiling hot water) I found a mantis shrimp in one.
Only the size of my pinkie finger - but still clearly a mantis.
Maybe all my snail and crab deaths actually are accounted for?

Robb

 

[jason sartain]

Good catch!

 

[lilrobb]

I just wonder how it got inside the overflow box to get into the sock?!

 

[brianjfinn]

If he's not dead, I'd say start a species tank. Unless he's the kind that's break the glass...

 

[hackman72]

that was a very lucky catch

 

[lilrobb]

He smelled like fresh lobster when I pulled him out of the steaming sock.
Dead!

 

[cr500_af]

Did it taste like lobster?

 

[brianjfinn]

Ah, so you found him after the boiling water. Good find, still!!

 

[oil_fan]

Nice find Robb!! Good thing you lucked out and got it out of the tank. Those are some nasty shrimp!!

 

[lilrobb]

I never knew I had one, now my dead pistol shrimp and several large dead hermits make some sense.
I will feed my yellow tang some extra nori, apologizing I thought it was him...

 

[corigan]

LilRobb;443312 wrote: I never knew I had one, now my dead pistol shrimp and several large dead hermits make some sense.
I will feed my yellow tang some extra nori, apologizing I thought it was him...

LOL, he's been telling you all along it is a setup and he was framed!

Awesome catch. I always am real careful when turning my socks inside out and cleaning them as I always seem to get bristleworms in mine.

Matt

 

[coolsurf]

Things that make you go....hmmm?

 

[william1]

Yummy lol..

 

[gnashty]

LilRobb;443277 wrote: (And I wash them with boiling hot water) I found a mantis shrimp in one.
Only the size of my pinkie finger - but still clearly a mantis.
Maybe all my snail and crab deaths actually are accounted for?

Robb

wow - i was cleaning mine as you were typing this - i had my hand all in it too! didnt want to hijack your thread so i posted asking the best method to clean them, i just converted my trickle filter to sump so this was my first cleaning.

 

[smoothie]

Good catch. Anything to take your mind off the smell of cooking rock right?
Glad you found the culprit.

 

[ralph atl]

I have found 3 shrimp in my filter socks so far, 2 peppermint, and one Red & White pistol ($$$). The only one I didn't notice until it was too late, was the pistol, doh. I was curios as how they were getting down there myself. hummm.