diordivasarah
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I was wondering if a Mantis Shrimp could be kept with other species of shrimps (such as Sexy Shrimp, Cleaner Shrimp, Bumblebee Shrimp) without them being devoured?
Do Mantis Shrimp eat other Shrimps?
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Crawling68
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Highly Unlikely, but you can try.
Bummer, eh?
hammerhead
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They will eat anything they can catch fish snails crabs shrimp
hammerhead said:
That isn't entirely true. Mantis Shrimp aren't indiscriminat killers.
One of mine doesn't touch snails (my larger Peacock: O. scyllarus), another doesn't eat hermits, a third eats one type of snail, whilst ignoring another type. Several other folks on here have mantis shrimp that live with various other animals (fish ) with no problems.
However...shrimp are in the dietary range of both spearers and smashers (Bummer for them...). Putting a shrimp in with a mantis is pretty much going to end with the mantis asking you to pass the lemon and tartar sauce.
-Ron
i would nt try it. i bought some of those hawian shrimp for 25 cents a piece to see what would happen. they suffered horible deaths! he hit them onces, they would try to walk it of but then thier legs didnt work then he would grab them. only one remains and he is to fast for the mantis.
hammerhead
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I have seen Mantis Shrimp eat anything that was put in the tank So IME/IMO they will kill and eat anything they can catch.Uriel said:That isn't entirely true. Mantis Shrimp aren't indiscriminat killers.
One of mine doesn't touch snails (my larger Peacock: O. scyllarus), another doesn't eat hermits, a third eats one type of snail, whilst ignoring another type. Several other folks on here have mantis shrimp that live with various other animals (fish ) with no problems.
However...shrimp are in the dietary range of both spearers and smashers (Bummer for them...). Putting a shrimp in with a mantis is pretty much going to end with the mantis asking you to pass the lemon and tartar sauce.
-Ron
I believe any shrimp would surely be dinner. However, depending on the type of mantis and method of introduction, many carefully selected tankmates can be kept together with mantid's. But as Uriel has stated, they certaintly have "personalities" or more appropriately, "preferences" on live foods. My friends peacock will eat margirita snails but not illyanous snails, or turbo snails even though they all live in the same tank. the same peacock will also not mess with clowns or damsels or starfish, but will kill urchins and crayfish.
My oerstedii's doesn't care at ALL about his saddle back clown tankmate, or the illyenous snails, hermits (large and small), or pencil urchin. But he prefers frozen or dead foods only from my feedsing stick... The onlything i have tried is ghost shrimp, but my clown will kill the ghost shrimp for fun, then leave them there, so the mantis is not even interested in the dead corpse...
My oerstedii's doesn't care at ALL about his saddle back clown tankmate, or the illyenous snails, hermits (large and small), or pencil urchin. But he prefers frozen or dead foods only from my feedsing stick... The onlything i have tried is ghost shrimp, but my clown will kill the ghost shrimp for fun, then leave them there, so the mantis is not even interested in the dead corpse...
TheVillageIdiot
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per the adventures of tim...
DM put three lysmata w. in the tank w/ his mantis, they lived for a while and cleaned out the apistasia in a section of the tank, then tim ate them... all of them...
DM put three lysmata w. in the tank w/ his mantis, they lived for a while and cleaned out the apistasia in a section of the tank, then tim ate them... all of them...
TheVillageIdiot
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lol...
only, more german...
only, more german...
