Any mantis glass breakers??

jcm1229

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Many descriptions indicate that the mantis can break your aquairium glass. I'm planning a nano tank with gulfview rock. If I get a mantis, I plan on keeping him.

Any actual experience with glass breaking??
 
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unless you aggravate the thing like crazy, and you have a smasher that is at least of medium size you should have no problem....i once tranferred a Gonodactylus chiragra temporarily into a small plastic container...the thing became agitated by the enclosed space and delivered one massive hit to a side wall and created a large crack in the plastic and let the water out.

there is also the case of "tyson", which did break the thick glass tank that held it in an aquarium.....it was in all the news in England.

http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/sighting/report1.htm

dr caldwell also reports that large smashers like Hemisquilla does break aquarium walls, but rarely.
 
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