to catch a mantis?

[Jyman]

Ok the way I got rid of the mantis out of the tank here. I ended up taking the rock out of the main tank and putting it in another tank with no other rock. and I was disturbing his home enough in the new tank that he left the rock he was on and tryed to find another.

When i saw that he left his rock i pulled the rock out and put it back in the main tank, only took about 1-2 hours to get him but it was easyer then trying to catch him.

[sitandwatch]

I also ended up removing the rock as he would not fall for the traps "Stupid Mantis"

Once I had the rock removed I poked him out with a stick then gave him away.

[burrows14]

I'll Buy some thick rubber gloves an pull out all the rock when I get home tonight. I think he has moved his home so this should take a while. Not only is it terrorizing my tank it has started to haunt my dreams ha ha another question I have is about cleaning up the aftermath. I was thinking about buying a kitty litter scoop to sift out all the shattered shells... Do you think it would be a bad thing to disrupt the sand bed like this?

Cheers
Ray

[prodogg02]

i always use gloves to move my rock since my arm went numb one day after moving some coral but i dont know if they will help with a mantis smash though good luck hope you get the nastysucker out