60gal mantis tank

[untamed]

I often hold the shrimp and let him whack it out of the feeding claws. You know...just to make him work a bit for his meals!

[justinl]

hmm good method. may have to steal that one from ya. I found out he hates the colour green. Apparently green reminds mantids of other mantids so they hate it (competition). I tested this with the handle of a green dipnet... whack. yup he hates it alright.

[Fish]

Justin,
This info probably isn't necessary to you because you are feeding lots of live, shelled food - but I posted on grimreefers the idea of buying empty snail shells from the LFS for a few cents each and stuffing them with frozen krill. For those people that feed only frozen food it is a good way to get your mantis to hit something hard and keep his dactyls nice and strong. Of course, I was feeding mine a lot of hermits and snails too so most of the time the soft krill was a nice break. We can all apreciate an easy meal I think.

- Chad

[justinl]

Yeah i know but I don't see the necessity unless you're putting the mantis through long periods without live food or no live at all. ... that and im lazy. I usually recommend that to people who have mantids but don't want to feed them the cute lil innocent hermits. humbug.

easy meal? why must you bring up food?! it's bringing me back to the laab namtok recipe... *drool*

[justinl]

wooot! By monday Ill have a brand spankin new 8 gal biocube for Trogdor! Eventually it will be a reef... eventually.

But since there's no mantis in the 60gal, it's no longer a 60gal mantis tank is it? it's a FO. An FO that will soon get a valentini puffer and possibly a snowflake eel!

*happy dancing*

[justinl]

Do you guys think that that is an overstocked 60gal? foxface, damsel, valentini puffer, snowflake eel? From what Ive researched, there shouldn't be any compatability problems right?