Tapping noise in my marine tank

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Tapping noise in my marine tank

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This is bizarre, I have a tapping noise coming from an inhabitant of my tank, I have checked all equipment. I understand this could be a mantis shrimp or pistol shrimp but could anything else cause this? I have a red light coming hopefully tomorrow so I can look around long after lights out when I get home from work. Lets say it is a mantis how do you extract it from a tank with close to 100kg of rock in? How bad are they? Could I out box it lol?
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There are shrimp traps out there.
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Holy crap, I've heard of mantis shrimp but had no idea why they were so potentially dangerous.

http://youtu.be/ezRCQZgVEec

http://youtu.be/i-ahuZEvWH8

Hopefully your problem is something simple.
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Re: Tapping noise in my marine tank

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Manny managed to get out of the refugium and survived the pump and ended up in the display tank some months ago. I haven't bothered trying to remove him. All the hermits are still accounted for and so are the fish :lol:.
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Admittedly Manny is only 4~5cm :P and won't be growing much more if at all.
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Re: Tapping noise in my marine tank

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Hey bertie have you found out what the clicking was?
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Re: Tapping noise in my marine tank

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No not yet, moved some suspect rocks around and keep watching with red lights but no luck yet fella. Will keep you all posted
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