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08-28-2008, 10:35 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Penn State
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|  Another unidentifed creature... I was checking out my tank as usually before bed and I say something that caught my eye. It has antennas, and looks like a shrimp/crab of some kind. He's been in a rock everything I see him, but I really think it might be a pistol shrimp. I got a glimpse of it's pinches and one is different. I didn't get a real good look as the holes in the rock are small. I think he might be stuck in there actually.... I might have to make a rescue effort.... I'll see if I can get a picture.
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08-28-2008, 10:46 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: ft. lauderdale
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| im sure it isnt stuck... if there was one larger claw thats a pistol! have u heard any snapping coming from the tank?
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08-28-2008, 11:04 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: ft. lauderdale
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| i bet its a pistol
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08-29-2008, 09:54 AM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NE Indiana
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| well as he gets bigger you may hear him snap. Though they are kind of hit and miss, I think they need to be threatened to snap, then again, I have a green one in my 75g I never hear and a tiger in my 29 that I hear all the time....who knows....You may want to get him a watchman gobie to pair up with..... 
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08-30-2008, 03:45 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: sunnyside of california
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| i have a creature in my tank that sounds just like the one in yours. i tried to lure him out with some krill but he shot out of his hole took the food and went back in it was so quick!
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08-30-2008, 04:18 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: ft. lauderdale
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| could also be a mantis  that is unless u saw the one big claw, one little claw but pistols arnt all that quick!
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09-04-2008, 09:17 PM
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| I finally got to get a good look at him. I really think he was stuck in the rock though... because I broke open the opening a little bit for him and now he's MIA. I did here him clicking at me. It took a couple times before I realized what I was hearing... Sounds like a snap when you shock someone with static electricity. His colors are a little weird though.... His tail looks striped, but I didn't get too good a look at it.
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09-05-2008, 08:25 PM
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| sounds like a tiger pistol shrimp......and if he is like mine he is quick, though not as fast as a mantis.....hard to compare them when they aren't next to each other though. My tiger is paired with a wheelers goby......and my green pistol is with a pink spot goby.
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