Mantis Shrimp Woes

[noblejames1]

Hi everyone. I had a ville mantisShrimp in my favorite piece of live rock. The following methods did not work for me: 1.Mantis TRap. 2.Soaking infested piece of liverock in a bucket of extra salty water. 3.Squirting cold freshwater in the holes of the liverock. 4.Yelling at Mantis shimp.
5. Hurling infested liverock at exgirlfriend.
As a rule i don't like to hurt any creatures in my tank, but this creep took out my cleaner shrimp and a shrimp Goby and he was squatting in my very favorite piece of liverock. I then put the piece he was living in into the sump, hoping to starve him out. Fat Chance!!!. Three weeks later, beliving him to be a corpse, I put the piece back into the display tank. The very next day i saw the little bugger's eyes peering out at me.
The liverock was then placed on my sundeck for 2 weeks after that. It froze one night, so i KNOW he is dead now for sure. My Question is: I knowthe rock is no longer live now, would it be ok to put it back into my display tank to re colonize? Or will it pollute my tank?
Thanks James

 

[Anonymous]

Since you realize that everything on your rock is dead, if you put it back into your tank it will cause another cycle. Depending on the size of the rock and the size of the tank, it could be a large cycle and kill off things in your tank.

B

I know that hind sight is 20-20, but the only thing that worked for me was a 2 liter bottle of soda water dumped all over the rock!

 

[Bucktronix]

man you should have just dropped it in a bucket of fresh water.. that sucker should have just screamed out.

[ February 16, 2002: Message edited by: Bucktronix ]</p>

 

[morepunkthanewe]

no, its not going to cause a cycle in your tank. I don't think you have anything to worry about. Its pretty much just a lump of rock with no life on it anymore. THat means there is nothing to die off and pollute your tank. If you think there still might be some stuff that will rot, just scrub it really good, but since it has been dried for a few weeks, I'm sure that pretty much everything has already dessicated and dropped off.

 

[noblejames1]

Thanks For the info guys. It's a 2 LBS piece of live rock in a 55 gallon tank