My new mantis tank

[mrhasan]

All these for a mantis? :O You must really love that "pest"

Sweet setup I must say

[paddyob]

Sweet? Sure. Maybe with Sweet Chili Sauce.


Let's see you handle that puppy. Cool animal but far from sweet.

Nice little tank. Cool pictures of her too!

[allie_san]

D'awwwww! Not sure why I find them so cute, but I do!

[RDNanoGuy]

I love my peacock mantis, Dr. Zoidberg. Mine is about 7.5" long and very tame. She takes silversides right from my fingers. I also feed her bits of squid, various snails and freshwater fiddler crabs.

[born]

Awesome tank!!! I use to have a female peacock for over a year. She was awesome and believe it or not I'd had feed her too.
This makes me wanna start up a mantis tank! congrats!

I tried to play games with "neytiri" with a laser pointer and also to try to entertain her I set up a lava lamp beside my tank so she could watch the colors and shapes morph of the lava"
Do you plan to feed live always or are you gonna get her on frozen?

[daniella3d]

A lava lamp? was she watching it?

The mussel I feed her were frozen from fresh mussel as I don't have fresh one for now. I can feed frozen since she seems to like it anyway.

what hapened to your mantis?

Originally Posted by born

Awesome tank!!! I use to have a female peacock for over a year. She was awesome and believe it or not I'd had feed her too.
This makes me wanna start up a mantis tank! congrats!

I tried to play games with "neytiri" with a laser pointer and also to try to entertain her I set up a lava lamp beside my tank so she could watch the colors and shapes morph of the lava"
Do you plan to feed live always or are you gonna get her on frozen?

[born]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

A lava lamp? was she watching it?

The mussel I feed her were frozen from fresh mussel as I don't have fresh one for now. I can feed frozen since she seems to like it anyway.

what hapened to your mantis?

I like to believe she did. she'd poke her head out of the cave and sit there in the direction of the lamp. I just read articles from "Roy Cardwell" from uni of berkley on certain things to stimulate them more. The laser pointer definitely did work too

I use to buy mussels with the shell still attached on one side and put them upside down so she could work out her smashers a little and also use the shells for her burrow.
I believe she might have had a very small case of shell rot, but also I had her in a Red sea max and the skimmer wasnt keeping up with the nitrates, so ultimately I believe it was the affect of nitrates that made her pass away.
I use to get fiddler crabs from pisces and do live feedings, or I would spend about 5mins on each tank in LFS's looking at them seeing if there were any hitchhiker crabs. A lot of the time I actually found crabs, especially big black ones and the LFS would either just give them to me if I knew the guy, or sell them for like 5$. Also I'd put chromis in my tank, theyd usually survive but sometimes when she was really hungry it was a good hunt and made her more active

[daniella3d]

I have read that silverside can be detrimental if not fresh enough?

where did you get the freshwater fiddler crabs and are they expensive? did you just toss them in salwater and let the mantis kill them? I am guessing they do not live very long in saltwater?

Originally Posted by RDNanoGuy

I love my peacock mantis, Dr. Zoidberg. Mine is about 7.5" long and very tame. She takes silversides right from my fingers. I also feed her bits of squid, various snails and freshwater fiddler crabs.

[daniella3d]

well yesI do, but eventually when she will not be there anylonger (hope that will be far far away) that will make me a very nice frag tank. I have a Radion ready for that day.

Originally Posted by mrhasan

All these for a mantis? :O You must really love that "pest"

Sweet setup I must say

[born]

Oh and this may sound stupid but, let your mantis hit you once! to this day I regret not letting her hit me to see what it felt like. lol