Ultralife Reef ProduCounts AULXTERM X-Terminator Mantis Shrimp Trap

This could be a nice trap if they had a functional QA system to inspect the product before it ships to the customer. OK, so I receive my first Mantis trap and the trap door spring is broken into pieces with no damage to the box, which means it left the factory that way. I returnd it and received my replacement trap by mail and noticed I cannot set the trap because the trap door was not trimmed properly and sticks open. I did not want to send another one back and have to wait again so I took a razor blade and trimmed the excess junk plastic off of the trap door and finnally got it to work. I placed it into the tank and noticed in just a few days that the trap door spring was already starting to rust. I had a few different pests to capture so, I had to leave it in the tank for 2 weeks. The only good news is it did catch crabs, fish, snails etc. By the end of the 2 weeks the spring was rusted very badly. They should have made the spring out of corosion resistant steel since it is desighed for a salt water tank instead of using very low quality cheap junk metal. Keep in mind it is also possible to contaminate your water with the rusted metal biproducts and chemicals leached into your tank from the quickly disintegrating metal spring. This could be especially toxic to a small nano reef tank. I took the trap out of the tank and thoroughly rinsed off the salt water and immediatly dried it off to try and mimumize corosion. I stored it for 2 months and when I took it out of the box to reuse it the junk metal spring had rusted so badly it had crumbled into pieces, rendering the trap useless! If you purchase this trap realize it is so poorly manufactured that it will only last you one use and into the trash it will go. Hopefully it will catch the pest before it falls apart and poisions you reef tank. I would not recommend this waste of money to anyone! Thanks for listening.

Don from Minnesota, 13 year reef tank owner.

After two months of trying to catch the little booger with a home made bottle trap and a store loaned "tube" trap, I broke down and ordered this thing. I have my live rock zip tied together with corals on it, so I didn't want to break it apart. I had see the shrimp in the other two traps only once and he squirted out like it was nothing before I could even get to the string to haul his little butt out of there. With this trap, I caught him the second day I tried it (the first day I had not set the sensitivity low enough). After two months of trying, two days later I had him! Woohoo!

The nice features of this trap is that it is tinted which makes the little guy not so shy about going in, but you can still see into it to know if he is there or your bait s still in there. The pressure release is adjustable and simple to operate. The door snaps shut once he is inside and locks the little guy in. It also holds water so it doesn't drain when you pull it out. Unlike other reviewers, my trap came in without issues, even though it was just put in a padded envelope and tossed in the mail. So, I am THRILLED with this trap!

The bad news.... I'm still hearing snapping. :( Glad the trap is re-useable.

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Had gotten some new live rock for my reef tank and guess what? Yep a mantis shrimp came along eating my critters, so I tried this and by golly it worked! I took a little piece of fish and put the trap in the tank and the varmint was in there. Just make sure you rinse the trap several time to get the salt of and it won't corrode. At least mine haven't.

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it's definitely a cool idea, didn't really work for my nano though, my crabs/shrimp avoid it like the plague and my peppermint strolls in there and steals whatever food i have put in there.... :(

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Hi, i purchased this item and as the postage said it would be here within 21 days, it was. i'm very happy with this product, thanks heaps for the savings and the ease of this purchase.

Cheers Amazon i will be back.

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