Biocube29 from mantis tank to Clown heaven

[AHHope]

im happy you found a mantis. that guy there is a Gonodactylaceus ternatensis. Quite suited for an aquarium but they get over 10cm so you will have to upgrade in the future. Good luck with the mantis.

[Greenmaster]

He looks awesome. I want one lol

[Polscot]

right on, thanx andrew for the ID, when he gets too big ill come down and get a 30g cube untill then ill keep posting my progress with him, still dont know a name,

[Polscot]

so far he is about 2 inchest long, real small, the gorilla crabs are bigger, a toonie for the larger and a loonie for the smaller (including legs) will he be alright i know later on he'll ear them but i dont want them to hurt hm at this stage in the game

[Polscot]

the macro algae i got is starting to grow like a weed so thats good maybe ill sell some :P the mantis is real timid so far so hes very hard to get shots of, hes almost wipped out my cleaning crew of 10 hermits lol so ill have to buy more, once he gets bigger and comes out more it'll be easier to get more pics, so untill then heres some shots of the crab, and my turbo snail "cooter"




"cooter"


the "one armed bandit" eating some scallop

[Greenmaster]

I love the pics most posts are like one pic every 2 months... keep em coming, I like the bandit.

[Polscot]

got a few picks of ther 2 armed crab and some of the mantis in his hole, ive gotten go to red coral today to pick up another clean up crew (hermits $2 each great deal) hes eaten 6 of the 10 i had lol, i also feed him cut up scallop every second day



here the mantis eyes


comming out to see what kinda food i got


almost fully out minus tail u can see some of the colors,

[Greenmaster]

That looks so cool I with they were reef safe

[Polscot]

they acctually are reef safe, there not as bad as everyone says they are, the most ud lose is the odd clean up crew (there cheap so who cares), specially if u keep him feed every second day, which is fun to do, aahope has a reef bio cube with one in it and its fine, and the local FS has a massive 100g reef with a smithii in it and ud never be able to tell, there really not that destructive (AS LOGN AS U GET A SMASHER) as spearers kill fish

[Polscot]

i taunted him out a lil with some food, hes gone throuhg 1 molt and has grown about an inch, hes about 2.5" long now, it'll be nice once he reaches full size at 4" so he wont hide so much