Popping nosie in my tank...???

[Mr Cob]

Ok, so for the last couple of months every couple of days I will hear a loud pop noise from my tank. It sounds like a nice hammer tap to the glass. I normally just hear one pop from time to time day or night.

From google research I have found that this could be a possible Mantis shrimp or Pistol shrimp.

Any other possibilities or advice on this subject.

Thanks for your help.

[tropicana]

Put some ghost shrimp in your tank and see if anything comes out to try and get em... Make sure to do this with your lights off, using a red lens flash light, seems to help... I bet its a mantis or pistol shrimp... To catch them im unsure of how...

[Mr Cob]

Put some ghost shrimp in your tank and see if anything comes out to try and get em... Make sure to do this with your lights off, using a red lens flash light, seems to help... I bet its a mantis or pistol shrimp... To catch them im unsure of how...

Thanks, good idea.

I definitely do not want a Mantis....but if it's a Pistol....that would be cool...they are reef safe from what I have read.

[tropicana]

If you catch it and its a mantis, I got first dibs on a free mantis? :-p

[aquasport24]

That's sound like a pistol shrimp, i used to have one, you can hear that sound from a distant away..

[LoneStar]

Gotta be a pistol shrimp

[Mr Cob]

Thanks for all the posts.

Any info on Pistols...?

I'm thinking it's a Pistol too based on the infrequent single noise.

How do they do in reefs? I see they are reef safe...but how reef safe?

[JimD]

Just for fun...
http://www.educatedearth.net/video.php?id=3366

[sharkboy]

From the video, it doesn't seem like they are reef safe!

[Mr Cob]

Just for fun...
http://www.educatedearth.net/video.php?id=3366

Very cool...did not know how the snapping was used or worked. Thx for posting the link.

[Mr Cob]

From the video, it doesn't seem like they are reef safe!

Dr.'s Foster and Smith say Reef Compatible...

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=702

Can anyone provide information based on personal experience...or maybe additional facts.

Reef Safe or Not???

[aquasport24]

MINE never bothers anything that i know of. And the Randall shrimp goby should goes well with the shrimp( they help each other out, ) I would leave it in there for now rather then try to catch it. i dont know how live rock do you, but it can be worse then just leave it in..

[reeferRob]

My tank pops a couple times a day LOUD I know it isn't any critter it is the tank or the lights. I keep waiting for it to explode one day!

[Kristy]

We have a pistol shrimp, paired with a yellow watchman goby. They share the same cave. We NEVER see the pistol shrimp, but sometimes hear the pop. We were not even sure he was still alive after a few months, but then caught a glimpse by shining a flashlight down in their cave.

Shouldn't cause you any problems, supposedly they come out sometimes if paired with a goby, but not in our case.

[Hydramatic]

I've got a tiger pistol shrimp paired with my yellow watchman as well, and I DO see my shrimp come out at least a half-dozen times a day, usually shoveling sand out of his burrow. I also have the luxury of a relatively shallow sand bed and a stand that lets me see through the glass bottom and check out exactly what the pistol is doing.

I used to wonder what that popping noise was too, until I watched the shrimp pick up a marauding hermit crab, stick his pistol-arm into the crabs' shell, and fire away to his hearts content. Did I mention that my shrimp is an ax-murdering psychopath? He has built a tunnel out of the shells of his dead victims...

[Mr Cob]

I've got a tiger pistol shrimp paired with my yellow watchman as well, and I DO see my shrimp come out at least a half-dozen times a day, usually shoveling sand out of his burrow. I also have the luxury of a relatively shallow sand bed and a stand that lets me see through the glass bottom and check out exactly what the pistol is doing.

I used to wonder what that popping noise was too, until I watched the shrimp pick up a marauding hermit crab, stick his pistol-arm into the crabs' shell, and fire away to his hearts content. Did I mention that my shrimp is an ax-murdering psychopath? He has built a tunnel out of the shells of his dead victims...

Very cool!

So it seems that the only harm they may do is kill a hermit here and there.

[Hydramatic]

Very cool!

So it seems that the only harm they may do is kill a hermit here and there.

More or less. It's kinda messed-up though. Because of the plethora of nice shells surrounding his tunnel entrances, it only lures more hermits to their doom. I'm picturing my pistol shrimp as the evil witch with candy trees luring children in to eat them. lol

[rocketeer]

Reality is stranger than fiction.

Jack

[Mr Cob]

More or less. It's kinda messed-up though. Because of the plethora of nice shells surrounding his tunnel entrances, it only lures more hermits to their doom. I'm picturing my pistol shrimp as the evil witch with candy trees luring children in to eat them. lol

That's pretty classic!