Do mantis climb?

[Giga]

I'm making a 67G tank 55"x22"x12" that will be much like a tide pool and am thinking of putting a divider at about 1/3 of the tank for a peacock. I don't want it to look like a divider so I was going to silicone a glass divider, then put rocks around it to make it look like it's just a separate tide pool but really it's one tank. Some of the rock will be out of the water and am wondering if the mantis will crawl up and over the rock and crawl in the other part of the tank?

 

[MantisBrad]

They can swim over it man. But yes, they can climb as well. With my peacock I have noticed he likes to stay in his part of the tank but it is most likely different for every shrimp..

 

[Giga]

lol the divider will be taller then the watter it'll be like two separate tanks and then rocks will be covering that up out of the water, There will be no swimming into one tank to the other. I was wondering if the mantis will crawl out of the water.

 

[WeMa]

very unlikely, if it is a smasher he may try to dig through the rock to the other side though, but again unlikely as they tend to burrow through rocks downward for a cave, could happen though

 

[Mr Stomato]

I think you're in good shape. My peacocks rockwork has been water level before. Peacocks generally don't like to come out of water at all. I have seen chiragras expose part of themselves to air though.

 

[Gonodactylus]

O. scyllarus live subtidally and typically do not encounter the air - water interface. Generally, they will not crawl out of the water, but I have had a few over the years climb over egg-crate dividers that extended a couple of inches out of the water. This usually happened when they were trying to get to an animal on the other side. Also, if the animal panics, it could jump over the divider. I've seen O. scyllarus jump out of the water a couple of inches and travel about a body length. Still, I would say the chances of your animal transversing the barrier are small - but it could happen.

There are a few stomatopods that frequent are found out of the water - or at least with their backs out. These are all reef flat or grass flat species that hunt at low tide when predators are driven to deeper water. The species that I most regularly find on exposed flats is G. smithii, but G. falcatus, H. glyptocercus, G. platysoma, G. chiragra, G. viridis, N. bredini and P. ciliata all can be found out of the water.

Roy

 

[Pea-brain]

I've heard stories of O. scyllarus clearing 3 feet. I believe it happened to Ms. K?

Dan

 

[justinl]

i thought it was 1 foot for Ms. k?

 

[psychodave]

My Peacock jumpped out of her tank in the middle of the night back in January...poor gal, my fault though for not covering the tank