When we added the Florida live rock, we got a fun little mantis shrimp hitchhiker. So we hatched a plan to set up a satellite tank so that we could keep him separate from all our crabs and inverts.
There was still an open spot on the manifold (love this tank!), so the return pump feeds the satelite tank. Then it gravity feeds back into the sump. Mike put together a simple little trap baited with some frozen, and we watched as the little guy took the bait. He’s in the inverted head of the bottle being curious in this picture.
We pulled one of the paly/mushroom rocks out of the display for his tank and hooked up a spare kessil light we had laying around. Now he’s got his own little tank right next to the display. We’ve been enjoying watching him.
He’s definitely bigger than we thought!
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