The noise mantis shrimps make is reportedly from when they are smashing their way into a mollusc, not from their own physiology. Therefore it would more likely be a series of single clicks, rather than a single burst. I had two small mantis' when I got this live rock, one died at the end of a rogue screwdriver and the other was living in my sump up until I went nuts trying to pull a mushroom out of it and knocked everything over. He may still be there. I won't rule out another but based on the sound I am leaning towards pistol shrimp. Either way it is odd it has only just come about, perhaps I am simply hallucinating.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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