Snapping noise - driving me nuts!!!!!

lobsterboy · #1 05-06-2009, 06:57 AM

yeah i hear the same coming from my tank, at first
(which was 5yrs ago) i thought the tank had cracked. anyways turned out to be a crab. took a flashlight at night, and got him out, and the cracking stopped.
in the new tank, i still hear it everyone once and a while. not as bad as before.

Steve-O- · #2 05-06-2009, 08:16 AM

LOL ya i had this before and it drove me batty! Everytime i looked it stopped one day i saw a Alien like head come out and look at me. I grabbed the rockl fast and a mantis jumped out onto my carpet!! I was like SWEEET ITS OVER!! Guess what. CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK!! never did find out what it was sold my rock

fishytime · #3 05-06-2009, 12:43 PM

Well....it could be a crabs shell clicking the glass.

Leah · #4 05-06-2009, 12:54 PM

My tank is snapping as I type this, I just got used to it LOL! What can you do!

i have crabs · #5 05-06-2009, 01:03 PM

i just spotted a second mantis in my tank after 3 months probably, heard snapping and never cared much untill i seen the jerk, now everytime i hear snapping im stressing out that the fish dont end up dead, i bought a trap from bigals for $20 if it works you can have it after im done

Pazil · #6 05-06-2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by i have crabs

i just spotted a second mantis in my tank after 3 months probably, heard snapping and never cared much untill i seen the jerk, now everytime i hear snapping im stressing out that the fish dont end up dead, i bought a trap from bigals for $20 if it works you can have it after im done

Awesome... Thanks.... John can you confirm that... It was a crab that was making the clicking .... snapping sound. I know that I have at least one crab left in there (Ihave bannished about 12 of them to the sump) that I can not get at. I will try to indentify it. I never really considered that it could be a crab.

Doug where the sound is coming from is the center to top area of my left tower... so no glass.

Cheers
Lawrence

reef bound · #7 05-06-2009, 04:06 PM

We've had our 180g up for about 10 months, and even now, after a thorough search of the rock we originally put in, we still are finding little critters like crabs and little pistol shrimp and little mantis shrimps (I think). They must have been miniscule when we first got them because the ones we are finding lately aren't very big at all. Pistol shrimp is now about 3/4" and mantis was only about 1/2". Found a nasty little box crab about 2" that I'm sure was eating my zoas. And yes, we still have the clicking, too. Moral of this long story, even when you think you get the noise-maker out, you'll probably have another one or two in there. Good luck with the hunt.