the mantis cube
 

well heres my new pride an joy, my starfire cube with a mantis i just got from elite, these have to be one of the most interesting critters ive seen. i hope he likes his new home! hes a haptosquilla stoliura



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Looks awesome, JOSH. Is he going to eat your snail(s)?!

he might, the astrea is kinda a test, its pretty big so he might leave it alone unless hes starving but i plan to feed him lots of mysis so hopfully i can keep some snails

Haha,where have I seen this tank befour....haha.Nice find,I am looking for a mantis too.Somthing to fill out my 5g.

haha yah i had some inspration, elite is suppose to get in like 5 manis on monday

^^do they have a site?

Just a quick heads up, a full grown mantis can shatter a glass aquarium. At least crack it. It might b wise to look into an acrylic tank with a Mantis. I have personally seen a cracked tank from a mantis. Just a little heads up.

yup ive done alot of research on these guys, this breed stays small and could never have the power to break glass, well theres always the possibilty i guess, but in most cases its the ones 6" plus

You would have to get the shrimp pretty mad for it to break the glass. I have a 6inch peacock, and he is pretty tame. Unless you put something alive in there. I'am pretty sure they recognize people and are not threatendnless provoked. Anyways great looking tank and a pretty cool shrimp. By the way what type of lighting are you useing?

power compacts for now, might do one of those vipers down the road