Fish murder!

Naiad · Jan 9, 2016

Caught 3 of these guys so far tonight.

Naiad · Jan 9, 2016

Maybe when all the ruby crabs are gone the shy guys will start coming to the traps.

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

Total of six ruby crabs out. We will see what tonight brings

scardall · Jan 10, 2016

how many unwanted pests so far??? @Naiad

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

I have caught 6 ruby crabs, 4 mantis and a rock crab. I am undecided about the ruby crabs. I have seen 2 rock crabs and a worm still in tank but no luck catching them.

Jlobes · Jan 10, 2016

4 mantis!?

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

Yep.

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

Double pictured the same guy above here is the fourth

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

Three green and a brown. Three 9f them have found homes with people looking for a mantis tank. One is sitting in my qt. I am becoming more and more attached which is a bad thing because I am only supposed to have 1 permanent tank.

saltyfilmfolks · Jan 10, 2016

Define permanent.

DeniseAndy · Jan 10, 2016

That is a lot of mantis. Crazy!

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

Well if you are looking to set up a mantis tank and are not set on a specific species you could definitely kill two birds with one stone by ordering this rock lol. All the other critters would just be food or playmates lol.

hurst14801 · Jan 10, 2016

Naiad said:
So parameters are fine but I think I may have a mixture of some sort of illness, saw some rock scratching and a predator taking advantage of the situation. None of the fish look on their death bed prior to death/disappearance so i don't think they die before being grabbed but if are weak in any way... I have caught another mantis and seen at least 7 non reef safe crabs in the past few nights. None seem big enough to be the culprit but the sheer number is troubling.

I had a similar situation occur. Fish were sick but really think our pistol shrimp was not helping out.

Macdaddynick1 · Jan 10, 2016

lol . Where did you dug up that rock. Definitely they weren't lying when the told you it was live haha

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

First catch of the night...

JaihWill · Jan 10, 2016

Where'd you get this rock?

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

Here is a face view to help with id

Naiad · Jan 10, 2016

JaihWill said:
Where'd you get this rock?

It is uncured rock from kp aquatics. I was unsure about getting cured rock because depending on the process you may not get the good critters. Given the shape this rock came in though I would say even their cured rock will be full of life.

Fishinbob · Jan 10, 2016

Naiad said:
It is uncured rock from kp aquatics. I was unsure about getting cured rock because depending on the process you may not get the good critters. Given the shape this rock came in though I would say even their cured rock will be full of life.

Yup I'm going to run down to kp here soon and get some rock macros and gorgonian soon. It's a pain getting out the bad but worth the troubles. The hairy crab is a gorilla crab... very bad eats anything corals and fish. Had some chromis come up missing after they started hiding in "that one rock" but at least he just fed on my gsp. The red mitrax crab is sopossed to be reef safe easy enough to catch since they graze but I'd worry they might taste test corals.
Goto tbs aquatics and look up the life section to get ids. But the befits of all the micro fauna spaghetti worms, amphipods, micro brittles, and various bugs are amazing!