Baba Yaga wants her snails, thank you very much (G. Ternatensis)

[Uriel]

Just thought I'd post a pic...I was doing water changes this morning, and the little monster absolutely demanded a bite before I was allowed to work.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=87249


-Ron

 

[csammis]

Nice name I like that picture, and the other pictures of BY you've got in your gallery

 

[Uriel]

My G. Platysoma just emerged from his molt. I should have pictures of him soon as well. Of The Baron von Munchausen (my G. Viridis), the most elusive Mantis Shrimp on RC (other than the ones hidding out in folks' reef set-ups...),it will probably take the big moving day (when all get moved to a big,plush 55 gallon mantis hotel) to get some shots of him.



-Ron

 

[T-T-Trigger]

Isn't that a great species? Wait till you feed the little one some live crabs (not hermits) and it will show you what it is truly made of... thwack!

 

[Uriel]

Isn't that a great species? Wait till you feed the little one some live crabs (not hermits) and it will show you what it is truly made of... thwack!

I bought her a fiddler last week. I missed the shot where she blew it's big claw off by a half a second. Stupid 30 second video...

She chased it around and twacked legs off, then finished it off and dined on the body.

I can't wait to order some TBS rock and give the Gorilla crabs a wake-up call...


-Ron

 

[dc]

Feed me! Good looking mantis.

 

[Uriel]

Yep, she's a looker...and a total BRAT.

At this point, she knows that she has me wrapped around her fing...er, dactyl!?!

I am looking into finding her a nice coral, so as to give her a more natural looking habitat (since they live in corals). Not sure just what sort I should try and procure, though... I don't have much to trade, unless locals want copious amounts of free guestlist and/or all the drinks they can handle at a prominent nightclub here in SF.


I do like these, though...all were hitch-hikers on my 3.99 a pound LR (along with quite a few monsterous aiptasia that I am gearing up to murder).


Unidentified Zoanthids
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=87338

Red Mushrooms
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=87339

Orange Mushrooms
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=87340

Is this a Sponge!?! It is growing on a coral skeleton that a colony of pink star polyps WAS on (I still have 5 or 6 polyps, I now know the seriousness of proper lightinh, RIP my little polyp-city...)

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=87341

Last-but-not-least, Glaurung, the G. Platysoma peers cautiously from within his Fortress after his molt. he was in there for 5 days or so.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=87343


-Ron

 

[dc]

I have spongey stuff like that also. I assume it's a sponge. I had a lot of caulerpa in with my last mantis. But that tank is now a anemone tank. I'm not liking this 10 hex at all, so I've not done much. Think I'll check into one of those 12 glass cubes. Here's my o. in the caulerpa.

 

[Uriel]

I have spongey stuff like that also. I assume it's a sponge. I had a lot of caulerpa in with my last mantis. But that tank is now a anemone tank. I'm not liking this 10 hex at all, so I've not done much. Think I'll check into one of those 12 glass cubes. Here's my o. in the caulerpa.

I have caulerpa in all 3 Mantis tanks as well, the simple variety that looks like kelp. Not sure of the species.

What species of Mantis is that? Good looking critter...


-Ron

 

[dc]

He was a Neogonodactylus oerstedii, just found him dead in the tank one day. Prolifera is what I have in my Harlequin shrimp tank, when I make a plan, I'll probably go with that.

He was such a character, hopefully my new guy will be also.