Dagon and Lo Pan...my 2 most recently acquired Mantis Shrimp...Dr Roy:Help!

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Uriel

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So, Dagon is an O. Scyllarus (sex unknown), while I would guess that Lo Pan is...N Wenn? Not sure. Dr. Roy, HELP!. Also, sexing them is possible...?


-Ron


Dagon
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91851

Smashin a hermit...

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91852

Bag was a little 'steamy', from close range to the light when i was floating it, forgive blurred/steamed areas...

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91853

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91854

Doing a somersault in anticipation of being set free from the accursed Bag.
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91855

Lo Pan

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91856

Blurry Telson Picture...
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91857

Non-Blurry Telson Picture...
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=91858

-Ron
 
nice looking how big is dagon? you can tell by the color (i think) greener is males and more of a brownish olive is females, but i think the best way to tell is looking down under. also i think lo pan is an N. wenn if not my mystery mantis will get id'd as well(had em for a year and still dunno what species it is)
awsome mantis,good luck with em,
dylan
 
Dagon is about 3".. He looks pretty small compared to my G. Ternatensis, who is about 4".
As far as color in O. Scyllarus, I thought (perhaps wrongly) that both sexes were an olive/greenish when younger, with males becoming bright green and females brownish-red when they got older. I am probably wrong, though.

I now have 5 mantis and counting...this is worse that 'Pokemon'.

I put Lo Pan (he is looking for the snail with the Jade Green Eyes) into a 1.5 hex that I had sitting around. Not a massive living space (and a temp) , but he had been living in a half-pint deli dish (you know, for potato salad...Ack!!!) at a LFS. I saw him on three previous visits, each time promising hi that I'd be back for him, even though they had him marked at 20 bucks. When I went down there to see the Peacock, Lo Pan (I had named him when I first spotted him...) popped out from behind the one little piece of LF in with him as if to say 'Remember our deal!?!
I bought a tiny filter/pump, a 50/50 bulb for a clip on light that I had, a heater and away I went!

I need help...


-Ron
 
Color and sexing O. scyllarus

Color and sexing O. scyllarus

Body color in O. s is not a reliable indicator of age or sex. Generally, sexually mature males are more emerald green and females more olive, but I have seen large, brown males and greenish females. I once though that juveniles had a yellowish body color since serveral that I bought from importers had this coloration, but last year while in Australia I collected several juveniles as small as 39 mm and their coloration was no different than that of small adults.

There is one color difference between sexually mature males and females that always seems to be there and will allow you sex an animal from across the room. I'll let you guys who keep O. s figure it out.

However, if you really want to sex O.s even as juveniles, look at the genitalia. Juvenile females don't have gonopores, but even a 40 mm male has a pair of gonopods (penises)

Roy
 
Ok, someone better spill the beans about the color difference Dr Roy is hinting at! I am pretty sure my O.s. is a female but had someone inform me that it was actually male.

So....what's the secret??
 
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