i cant find my mantis!

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Hutton

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is he dead? i cant find him. when i put him in the tank last night he seemed fine! he even went after a hermit crab. when i was tring to go to sleep, i heard him chipping away at the live rock! check on him this morning and i couldnt gind him! u check 5 minutes ago after i got home from school i still cant find him! what happened to him? he is a g smithii and i heard they were realy active? what do you guys think?
 
ok never mind... i found him and he is alive. how do you tell a male from a female? he was smaller than the other smithii and was a different color. he is a dark green. i found his den and he peaks out once in a while! sorry for the inconviniance(spelling?)
 
when i first put my mantis in his tank he hid for a few days before he started to roam around, but now he is almost always visible hanging his head out of his burrow. just give him some time and he should become more active.
 
I have a G. Smithii in my 120 FO tank and I think he only eats the food I put in the tank because I don't find empty shells in my tank and the number of hermits and snails seem constant. I can sometimes go weeks without seeing him but when I think he's dead he does a tour around the tank and is out in the open for an hour then hides again.
 
he is becomeing brave.. maybe to brave... he attacked my finger through the glass and i was shock! im a little cerious how bad it hurts... maybe to curious...
 
How bad can it hurt?

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"Loads of Learnin' About Mantis Shrimp" by James Fatherree
Loads of Learnin' About Mantis Shrimp
 
Hutton said:
he is becomeing brave.. maybe to brave... he attacked my finger through the glass and i was shock! im a little cerious how bad it hurts... maybe to curious...
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I got hit the week nefore last by my newest G. chiraga.
Not only does it hurt, but I have a (now healing) bone bruise that still hurts when I touch it. The mantis (Achilles) got me right on the knuckle.
Ouch!

-Ron
 
majestic: did the ciliata cut down to the bone??
I have never been hit by my 6 inch peacock, I am sure it would hurt, but I've had her for 11 months now, and doesn't see me as a threat.... I doubt she would attack unless I shoved my finger in her face..or put a crayfish finger puppet on!
 
I saw my peacock attack this gladiator crayfish, and in the first confrontation, boris attempted to de-claw his opponent with a few strong strikes on the claw, Boris missed the first time and struck the back of the tank glass! Luckily the glas is quite thick, and there way no damage
 
turns out he wasnt molting. i gave him a piece of raw shrimp and he hid it in his burrow and covered it up with sand rock ruble that he chiped of of the live rock and sand. do they usualy do this
 
I acquired a mantis shrimp in a 2 1/2 gallon tank from my son. I have had him 2 weeks and have yet to see him. My son said he is bright green and about an inch long. I can see what appears to be his burrow in the back of the tank, which has sand, liverock and mushrooms. I thawed out a piece of shrimp, put a small piece on a skewer and put it near his burrow. I never saw the mantis, although the hermit crab discovered the food. I finally just left the piece in the tank and it was gone the next morning. I am anxious to see this little guy. Is there anything I can do to entice him into coming out of his burrow. TIA.
 
my mantis usually will take my zoanthid frags and moves them to his burrow, and what makes me really bad is the fact that it is always my rare zoos that are hard to find. and i am not about to stick my finger in there and let a smasher get ahold of it
 
Reefdiver77 said:
I acquired a mantis shrimp in a 2 1/2 gallon tank from my son. I have had him 2 weeks and have yet to see him. My son said he is bright green and about an inch long. I can see what appears to be his burrow in the back of the tank, which has sand, liverock and mushrooms. I thawed out a piece of shrimp, put a small piece on a skewer and put it near his burrow. I never saw the mantis, although the hermit crab discovered the food. I finally just left the piece in the tank and it was gone the next morning. I am anxious to see this little guy. Is there anything I can do to entice him into coming out of his burrow. TIA.
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Sometimes leaving the lights off will help the mantis feel more secure, until he/she gets use to it's surroundings.
 
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