A quick thanks to weedhopper!

[Hwarang]

Weedhopper recently sent me a mantis shrimp he acquired in some TBS live rock. The little guy is beautiful and healthy! Thanks a lot for sending him to me!

Your reimbursement is on the way (with a little something extra for your troubles), and it should arrive no later than Wednesday!

It's very cool to meet someone willing to help a stranger out just to be nice. You rock, man!

-me

 

[Hwarang]

bumph

 

[weedhopper]

hey, Hwarang,
Just seen this post.
No problem, and again, I also appreciate the reimbursment so soon (plus bonus).
It's a sad thing in this day and age people cannot trust each other to do the right thing.

Also as a side note: Got my second half of "package" !!!!
I have at least 1 more mantis, (2 total) that I know of.
I will work on catching them as soon as my cycyle is finished.
One guy from Toledo was interested in one, Please reply or IM me if you want to get togather.

Later,
Weed

 

[weedhopper]

hwarang,
How is she doing? A pic would be nice.
An update would be nice to satisify the curious.
thanks,
weed

 

[Hwarang]

She's doing well thanks!

I just upgraded her to a 5.5g AGA tank and found some larger specimens of crab and snail that she will probably leave alone, so I am working on acquiring them and setting up the fuge (right now there are two whisper HOB's hanging off the back one with chemipure and one with rubble rock).

Factiods:
1. she hasn't molted yet, or if she has I didn't see it.
2. she hunts, eats flake, or takes krill from the tweezers
3. i hear her whack whack whacking a lot when she makes tunnels
4. sometimes i see her with litte tiny chips of rock in her uh mandibles? she can't hold things with her clubs of course but i see her expelling little rock chunks from her burrow
5. she also digs in the substrate at the base of the rock quite a bit.
6. she ate the hitchhiker emerald crab when he tried to molt.
7. she is really, really cool.

I'll post pix of the tank in about a month or so when it's all ship shape!