Finally getting a mantis

[rogerwells]

I been looking for one since late january and finally some guy that lives like a half hour away tells me that he just ordered some tbs and hes flushed out one mantis and some gorilla crabs...hes just going to give me both.

i got a 12 gallon nano cube all set up for him.
with some hermits and snails for him to eat.
but i had a question on how you feed them with the straw...and what you put in the straw??

i have some krill that i got awhile ago..i remember reading that you feed them that out of the straw.
any other tips will be helpful too.

 

[Flusher]

Jam the krill into the end of the straw, and poke the straw into the tank where the mantis can reach it.

 

[rogerwells]

haha oh alright.....easy enough.

i just picked it up like twenty minutes ago and put it in my 12 gallon...it looked like it made a burrow in my rock with yellow polyps all over it....but it may have moved by tomorrow....hes so sweet.