L. Maculata

[psychodave]

Aquarium Concepts in Dublin has 6 Huge L Maculata, at least 8 inches long... I took some pics with my camera phone...Ill upload them later when photo bucket is back up.

 

[Gonodactylus]

Two of them were Lysiosquillina lisa, a species I have never seen for sale. The others were L. maculata including two females which are hard to come by. All were over 10 inches. Apparently they were purchased in a fish market in Indonesia.

Roy

 

[psychodave]

those were the two lighter ones, correct?

I was hoping you would come by and grab them since they are to big for most hobbiest's aquariums. I went in today to get a zoa frag a customer traded in and one of the girls told my you grabbed 4 of them. Are you going to rescue the other two? If I had a 55 gal I could set up with a dsb id love to have one but its to much money for me at the moment. Ive got some cell phone pics to upload for the other users to see...

 

[Gonodactylus]

Yes, we are taking the others. We will pick them up in a couple of days. I only had room right now for 4.

Roy

 

[psychodave]

Excellent, im glad they are going with you!

Here are a few pics...

 

[gholland]

Wow! Thanks for sharing those Dave!

 

[helipilot]

WOW, I had no idea they got that big. Looks like something out of a sci-fy movie. " MONSTER MANTIS UNLEASHED". Thanks!

 

[psychodave]

There is one left...a male i believe.

 

[Tylt33]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11641131#post11641131 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by psychodave
There is one left...a male i believe.

I thought Roy got them all? How much do mantis like this cost? And how in the world do LFS get these things???

 

[psychodave]

They are $50, these ones were rescued by the distributer from a fish market in indonesia. Everyone asks about it when they see him, a few were even intrested in adopting(buying) him untill they found out about what it does and what kind of habitat it needs.