Baby Shrimp or Mantis? ID Please

cook77 · Dec 10, 2016

ID

Lionfish Lair · Dec 10, 2016

Looks like a gammarid amphipod.

cook77 · Dec 10, 2016

Lionfish Lair said:
Looks like a gammarid amphipod.

Good or bad

Lionfish Lair · Dec 10, 2016

They are good.

stevo01 · Dec 10, 2016

Funny tho, they do look a little like a tiny mantis. I see fresh molts floating around in the tank sometimes.

cook77 · Dec 10, 2016

Lionfish Lair said:
They are good.

See the guy I bought the live rock off of. Told me there is a Tiger Pistol Shrimp in the rocks. But I haven't seen him. I'm 8 days into my cycle.

Vincent100 · Dec 10, 2016

If there is a tiger pistol shrimp in your rocks than that there in the pic is dinner lol

stevo01 · Dec 10, 2016

Have you heard it popping yet?

cook77 · Dec 10, 2016

stevo01 said:
Have you heard it popping yet?

No I haven't heard anything.

stevo01 · Dec 10, 2016

Yeah they love amphipods, bigger meal of the pods

stevo01 · Dec 10, 2016

If your cycling a big Ammonia spike might kill it.

cook77 · Dec 10, 2016

stevo01 said:
If your cycling a big Ammonia spike might kill it.

I put some Dr. Tims One and Only the other day in it. I am starting to see some Diatoms. But that's about it.

stevo01 · Dec 10, 2016

cook77 said:
I put some Dr. Tims One and Only the other day in it. I am starting to see some Diatoms. But that's about it.

Nice!

stevo01 · Dec 10, 2016

Youll know it when that tiger is killing something! Are you getting a goby for it?

Vincent100 · Dec 10, 2016

I have a pistol shrimp of some kind in my tank its been in there since April , iv never seen it in all that time
I know he's their cause every night he's popping away , over time it's got louder aswell so he must be growing

cook77 · Dec 10, 2016

Vincent100 said:
I have a pistol shrimp of some kind in my tank its been in there since April , iv never seen it in all that time
I know he's their cause every night he's popping away , over time it's got louder aswell so he must be growing

Guy that I got the rock off of. Said he didn't see it for the first month.

cook77 · Dec 10, 2016

stevo01 said:
Youll know it when that tiger is killing something! Are you getting a goby for it?

For sure!

stevo01 · Dec 10, 2016

He controls the intensity of the pops. Ive heard him snap so loud fro in the other room. Other times its like a tiny snap. I think sometimes its a warning snap other times its a killing pop.

They cant see whats right in front of them. So with no goby you will maybe never see it. The tiger is the larger of the species we can get. Just beware, that they can go rouge and kill the goby without warning. My little yasha got killed well after they established the symbiotic partnership. He then went on to kill both my sexy shrimp. Total assasin!