G. ternatensis

[helipilot]

I lucked into picking up a 3 in. G. Ternatensis. What a beautiful mantis, bright red intersegmental stripes, beautiful blue antennal scales. He is also really thick bodied. Does this species stay in the rock all the time or will it venture out at some time. I have had it two days now and only seen it's eyes. I should have taken some pic's when I was acclimating it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[ksrinlv]

Wow, sounds fantastic, would have loved to have seen pics!! Hopefully he'll come out and pose for you one of these days...!

 

[dragonforce]

I have a female tern and she is by far the most aggressive out of my 2 smithiis and ciliata. She spends a lot of time in her burrow putting rocks here and there and she even uses the chaeto to plug up holes and such. I find her roaming around her little 3g pico all the time. Current size is about 2 inches

 

[Gonodactylus]

In the field they live in branching corals and rarely come out. I've had several in the lab and they are not very interactive. Large males are also prone to shell disease. Smaller animals under about 75 mm seem to do fairly well in the aquarium.

Roy

 

[helipilot]

This afternoon, he came out for just a second, enough to snatch a blue leg hermit and then back into his lair and the smacking began. Hopefully as he becomes used to her new home he'll be out and about. Thank you all for your replies. This is my first ternatensis, I've read Dr. Roy's Id thread, and I am trying to learn all I can about him.

 

[KhawMengLee]

My first Mantis was a ternatensis...unfortunately, it suffered from shock and died a week or so later...still waiting for another one to turn up.

 

[Ms. K]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9998901#post9998901 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by KhawMengLee
My first Mantis was a ternatensis

Mine too. I LOVE ternatensis! Gorgeous mantis!