I hope there are no mommy mantis's in the tank? You might have made her mad removing her baby. :mrgreen:

Uhhh, might it just be a big isopod or amphipod?

Actually, the hitchiker mantis you'd find on LR are almost always grren or brown. The chances of a peacock mantis coming in LR are small.

As for this critter, it if was a mantis, you would never have scooped it up with a turkey baster. More likely a baby pistol shrimp, I've seen lots of those really tiny ones in boxes of freshly shipped rock.

If you want to get rid of it I can offer it a home in my fuge.
But I would keep it and grow it up a bit if I were you...

There he goes trying to snatch of free stuff again :biggrin:

I don't think I will ever shake that title now... :confused:

Besides I stated that I would keep it if I were her. :bad-word:

Well whatever it was it was a red brown. Unfortunatly I think something had taken a nip at it (probably my Lemonpeel Angel) before I'd captured it.

The poor thing is dead. :rolleyes: :cry: I was going to keep it it in a breeder box in my fug though. So if I find another one into my fug it goes.

It didn't look like any shrimp though so I seriously doubt it was a shrimp, the body composition was all wrong. I'm about 90% sure it was a mantis. I guess we'll see I'm going to keep a close watch and pull out any others.

Here is hoping there are more and they are mini cleaner shrimps, then it would be free/uber-cheap cleaner shrimps for all!