hey agilecrux!
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Shes doing pretty good. I see her out a lot more than when I first got her. shes talk of the town. All my friends that come over to my house they go straight to her tank and check up on her. I'll admit thats the first thing that I do when I get home from work. These past two days it seems shes been wandering around the tank like shes looking for something. Not sure what it is though. This weekend I plan on getting some shrimp from the store to feed to her to change the diet a little. All I can say is that I'm hooked for life on keeping a Mantis Shrimp.
seeing that i have a smasher. right now i only use crushed coral. there is some sand, about 5 lbs but you can not tell because if it being all blended into the crushed coral. In the future i plan on getting some more sand and live sand activator from GARF. If i had a spearer i would have gone with a full sand substrate and very deep one at that.
im trying to work out whether to use crushed coral (which i hate) or the sand i collected from the local beach.(very nice and natural looking)
moviegeek uses sand and say that the mantis like it but other people say not to use it, go for crushed coral. i used to have cc but i dont like the look of it so when i got my 2 new mantis tanks i collect sand to try it out. what to use?
moviegeek uses sand and say that the mantis like it but other people say not to use it, go for crushed coral. i used to have cc but i dont like the look of it so when i got my 2 new mantis tanks i collect sand to try it out. what to use?
Fcamdog
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Where I catch them there isn't a crushed coral substrate. It's all sand. These are south pacific varieties so don't take my advice if your shrimp is from the caribean, or somewhere other than the south pacific. As for diet I see scattered shells of blue-eyed crabs, they are very abundant, hermit crabs and I have personally seen the one in my tank go after a small spiny urchin. The shrimp was very persistent in bothering the urchin until it ultimately moved to another rock. Until that day I didn't even know that urchins moved around after they had attached into the crevice of a rock. I removed the first mantis from my tank after getting mad at all the dead crabs I was finding, about one every other day. Then I realized it was no different that keeping any other predator and when I saw a second about 2 weeks ago I have let him be. After all, all the crabs I want are about a 5 mintue drive away.
