Mantis Shrimp Infestation!!!

So the past week i've noticed at night I saw what appeared to be a tiny little mantis roaming about. Last night I went down and turned the light on in my living room so I could see in the tank n saw two of them but they hide so quick I wasn't 100% sure it was a mantis. Today I took my filter sock of to clean it and inside there were 3 of them!!!

They are for sure mantis shrimp as they look like little praying mantis with a bunch of legs. They are whitish clear kinda transparent looking and I have the 3 I caught in little test tubes to examin them closely to confirm they are in fact mantis.

What does a guy do in this situation? I know there are more in there and once they get big it will be bad right? They are so small right now they can't do harm but 6 months from now I will be in trouble.

Should I be worried and how do I rid these little devils? Please help!!!

 

What type of wrasse? Will a six line eat them? And when u say they won't get big how big do u mean? Will they reproduce? They are tiny right now but don't want them to get bigger and kill fish or harm anything. Is anybody familiar with the ones I'm describing?

 

LOL yes they look similar. Please tell me I'm an idiot and they are just copepods! Ha! Do pods molt tho because I just found two molts from where they shed a layer. I swear they have two little arms that look like a praying mantis but that pic above looks similar. I have em in test tubes and they swim like shrimp kinda too. Maybe I'm just a dummy and they really are pods. Ha!

 

Best part of being new to the hobby is I get to ask stupid questions and u guys get pleasure out of it! LOL. Thanks for all the help guys, after further review I'm gonna have to say I have pods not mantis! LOL. I assume that's a good thing and want several different kinds of pods rite?

 

It won't stop me Joel don't worst. I like when ppl get humor from my stupidity. Makes me feel useful. LOL. I showed one to my buddy in a test tube and he goes, is that a baby shrimp. LOL.

 

Haha!!! I'm a good sport it's ok. I still swear it looks like a little praying mantis and I'm sticking to that! It's a big *** pod tho no joke! I saved it in a little test tube so I can show it to somebody else and they won't think I'm crazy. (altho I think we determined I am)