How do you clean a tank that has a mantis shrimp?

dzovi · 07/06/2005, 11:26 AM

I don't currently have a mantis shrimp but I've been really interested by them. I was wondering though, how do you clean the glass and inside of a tank that has a mantis shrimp? I wouldn't want one to attack my hand.

rwhhunt · 07/06/2005, 01:30 PM

magnetic floating glass cleaner

sharkdude · 07/06/2005, 02:56 PM

long scrapper

ReneX · 07/11/2005, 06:46 PM

Very carefully.

likeavillain · 07/11/2005, 08:48 PM

how bad do they hurt when they attack. are you guaranteed a bloody finger? stitches?

Ms. K · 07/15/2005, 01:47 PM

Probably not if your mantis is a smasher rather than a slasher. It stings to be hit by a smasher, but you'd survive

Uriel · 07/15/2005, 03:23 PM

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Originally posted by Ms. K
Probably not if your mantis is a smasher rather than a slasher. It stings to be hit by a smasher, but you'd survive

There are smasher mantis more than capable of breaking fingers.
Likewise, there is one case of an infection setting in from a blow from a smasher, that ended with an amputated thumb/finger.

Watching my O.Scyllarus break rock apart for use in his burrow dissuades me from putting my hand in there.

-Ron

Uriel · 07/15/2005, 03:24 PM

I use a scraper, as well as several sizes of the 'floating magnets' to clean my tanks.

-Ron

07/06/2005, 11:26 AM	#1
dzovi Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 744	How do you clean a tank that has a mantis shrimp? I don't currently have a mantis shrimp but I've been really interested by them. I was wondering though, how do you clean the glass and inside of a tank that has a mantis shrimp? I wouldn't want one to attack my hand.

07/06/2005, 02:56 PM	#3
sharkdude Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Garden Grove, CA Posts: 4,149	long scrapper __________________ Sharkdude Current Tank Info: reef tankless since August 2009; PDF vivs since October 2009

07/15/2005, 01:47 PM	#6
Ms. K Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Georgia Posts: 216	Probably not if your mantis is a smasher rather than a slasher. It stings to be hit by a smasher, but you'd survive __________________ Ms. K "We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depths of our answers" - Carl Sagan Current Tank Info: 30g mantis tank;125 gallon reef with 58 gallon fuge, pair false percs, bangaii card, coral beauty, black and white perc, royal gramma, mandarin dragonette, dragon goby, sunrise dottyback, bicolor blenny, softies, candy cane, frogspawn, etc.

07/06/2005, 01:30 PM	#2
rwhhunt Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 1,128	magnetic floating glass cleaner

07/11/2005, 06:46 PM	#4
ReneX Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 238	Very carefully.

07/11/2005, 08:48 PM	#5
likeavillain Moved On Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 233	how bad do they hurt when they attack. are you guaranteed a bloody finger? stitches?

07/15/2005, 03:24 PM	#8
Uriel Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: San Francisco Posts: 712	I use a scraper, as well as several sizes of the 'floating magnets' to clean my tanks. -Ron