Id?

Carson, thanks for the reply. How can you tell? Just curious... I haven't seen a lot of photos of spearers... not from the top anyway.
 
mothra said:
Hey Jason are you getting another mantis? How's it going with your current little smasher?
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so so... he seems to be an N. Wennerae, which are supposed to be somewhat aggressive, but he still hides most of the day. Apparently he has gotten bold a few times and come out to snatch a nas snail and drag his victim back to his hideout where he proceeds to pummel him. I, however, have yet to witness this behavior. This is pretty much all I see of him:

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Sometimes this:
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get it?
 
haha yep! I've only seen ours a handful of times, but then again she lives in the sump :/

Are you and Liz going to be at the meeting tonight? Sandra and I will keep an eye out.


Jacob.
 
Liz and I will be at the meeting. You and Sandra should take some pizza off my hands... I was planning on something simple like half pep and half combo... It is the least I can do - you have hooked us up with macro, crabs (the good kind) and now snails...
If you have other preferences for pizza, let me know...
mothra said:
haha yep! I've only seen ours a handful of times, but then again she lives in the sump :/

Are you and Liz going to be at the meeting tonight? Sandra and I will keep an eye out.


Jacob.
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I remembered about the snails on the way home, so yeah I'll bag you up some. Pizza? Sure might just take you up on that. See you tonight.
 
The animal shown is Haptosquilla glyptocercus, a common lower intertidal species that lives in rubble and bench. It can be found from the central Pacific to the Indian Ocean. Maximum size is about 40 mm. They are extremely hardy, but don't like to come out of their cavities.

Roy
 
Jason, thanks for the pizza. I hope those snails get busy for ya and make lots of mantis food. I've been dropping one near our mantis' lair about once a day and she comes right out and grabs them.

Give them some time to reproduce before making food out of them.

Jacob.
 
Thanks for the ID Doc.
One more question on this species... Which of the 2 scenarios are more likely:
1) Mantis jumped an inch or so from the water out of the tank
2) Mantis is very adept at hiding in the sand and stays completely buried.
I ask because I can't find this little mantis anywhere in my 2.5 nano. I even went poking around in the substrate.
I put some chaeto and a pvc pipe in there... Didn't put any rock yet as the rock I have is too dense. I didn't think such a small smasher could break rock that dense.
Anyway, did my mantis jump out only to be eaten by the cat? I hope not... :(
 
Gonodactylus said:
They rarely bury. They can jump an inch or two, but my bet is that it has crawled into a crevice or into tubing.

Roy
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Thanks for the reply. I will keep my hopes up,...
 
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