This evening I went to pick up my liverock shipment from the freight co. for my second 55 gal tank.
The rocks are from a Floirda liverock vender, straight from the Gulf of Mexico. Well much to my surprise I aquired amoung my hitchhikers 2 mantis shrimp, one in each box. One box had a beautiful mantis , several dead crabs ( half eaten), a dead mantis and a dead half eaten peppermint shrimp ( a little upset about that, but these were freebie hitchhikers). And a large clump ( size of a quater) orange eggs. I believe they are the mantis's eggs as they look like the ones in the picture on this site w/ the mother mantis.
I would love to keep both mantis, but do not want to risk them injuring each other or my other crabs in the new reef tank. My other 55 is an established fish and live rock only tank ( semi-reef?) w/ some blue-legs and turbos for algae control.
What size tank are these mantis shrimp going to need? What type of filtration ( protein skimmer etc) ? And can one tank be used w/ a divider to seperate them? And what about the eggs?
The rocks are from a Floirda liverock vender, straight from the Gulf of Mexico. Well much to my surprise I aquired amoung my hitchhikers 2 mantis shrimp, one in each box. One box had a beautiful mantis , several dead crabs ( half eaten), a dead mantis and a dead half eaten peppermint shrimp ( a little upset about that, but these were freebie hitchhikers). And a large clump ( size of a quater) orange eggs. I believe they are the mantis's eggs as they look like the ones in the picture on this site w/ the mother mantis.
I would love to keep both mantis, but do not want to risk them injuring each other or my other crabs in the new reef tank. My other 55 is an established fish and live rock only tank ( semi-reef?) w/ some blue-legs and turbos for algae control.
What size tank are these mantis shrimp going to need? What type of filtration ( protein skimmer etc) ? And can one tank be used w/ a divider to seperate them? And what about the eggs?
