Ideal Diet

[Reefologist]

what would be the ideal diet for peacock mantis? thx

 

[DanInSD]

Mixed frozen marine meats (shrimp/krill/scallop/silversides) with the occasional hard-shelled live prey (snail/crab/crayfish) for variety.

 

[BALISTIK]

do you always soak the frozens in the selcon? and would it be a bad idea to give the live food selcon before feeding?

i guess im looking to know if too much selcon is bad or how i should limit the supplement.

 

[DanInSD]

I've never used Selcon and my peacock seems healthy. She's molted every 3-4 months, eats consistently, etc. As with human nutrition, a proper and varied diet for the most part should obviate the need for supplementation.

That being said, as long as you were reasonably careful (i.e. don't dump the bottle of Selcon into the aquarium), I would think it would be hard to harm the mantis with this stuff. It's pretty safe. It has fish oil (there's a joke in there somewhere), "marine lipids" (likewise), and vitamins C and B12, according to Marine Depot.

Dan

 

[BALISTIK]

for the most part i've been feeding hermits, and a snail. a couple of times i fed krill but i have yet to use the selcon (its being shipped). i will definitely soak all frozens in it though.

 

[Gonodactylus]

I suspect if you trace back these threads far enough, you will find that I am responsible for suggesting the use of selcon with stomatopods. We don't use it routinely, but I do add it to freeze-dried krill and to live brine when rearing larvae. I also think it helps with shell disease and it certainly helps maintain color.

Hard prey such as snails are important with O. scyllarus because they provide exercise that can help prevent raptorial appendage loss.

Roy