haaa Haaa LLLOOOOOOSSSER
 

Mantis anyone. After months of kringing at evey click, and hours of work i gotem out. How can anything so colorful be such a problem. Maybe now my snails will come down from the top of the tank, and the Peppermint shrimp can eat the aptasia, in stead of disappearing/dieing.

Go
 

Any idea what kind of mantis it is? How big is it?

Here's a site where you might be able to identify it:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthrop...raca/royslist/

I'd probably take it, but I'm a little too far away to pick it up... :cry:
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Lovely Wendie99

i thought i posted a pic, i'll try again. turns out though that the clicking hasn't gone away. I either have another in there or it's my regal tang wacking his tail against the glass. ????I'm in theory mode for now.

Nice Mantis

Yes a very cool shrimp, if you were in calgary I would take him for sure.

I brightened it up for you a bit, I could hardly see it. Very cool by the way.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/mantis.jpg

hmm what is needed to keep one i have a 20g set up with come cured rock waitnig to go into my 120g but thats going to be awhile still

Kyle

i might be interested in taking him

Go
 

It looks like my G. smithii. Chances are, it won't get much bigger than 4" at any rate. It should do okay in a 5 gallon tank minimum.

All it needs is a cycled tank with rock to explore and to make a home in. They only need to eat a couple or a few times per week. Mine eats thawed frozen krill from a straw. It also likes hermit crabs and snails.

More info here:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumd...?s=&forumid=37
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Cat exercise wheel

Eh, I think it looks more like G. ternatensis. I had a G. ternatensis for a while and they have the bump/spike on their ass (sorry I dont know the scientific term). The G. smithii on the other hand are flat back there. But ya they dont get any bigger than 4". Wicked little guys.

Matt

hm, old thread. oh well whatever. anyways it's an N oerstedii. the tail (telson) lacks a pink bump that a G smithii has.