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.