Damsel in Distress
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I have a bunch of teeny tiny mantis (or so the best I can ID from the mantis sites) crawling around my nano.
I wasn't entirely sure they were mantis until today when I saw 3 of them get too close to each other and from out of nowhere, these large pairs of pincers came out of each one and they started to fight!
I don't want an aggresive tank.
So, sorry if this is a dumb question, but should I be worried? I have no fish... so if I don't get a fish to eat them while they are still little, will they end up growing to full size? (Ok, sorry, I know you guys are dedicated to keeping these critters, but I'm just plain scared of ending up with a nano tank that I can't even put my hands in!)
The truth is, I already hear clicking at night, so I'm sure I have one adult somewhere. So far that one adult seems to be fairly harmless.. (althought I did see my lettuce nudibrach get dragged off into the crack of a rock...
But other than corals, and the one lettuce nudi, I haven't had anything else that a mantis would want to attack)
Thanks for any advice you may have.
damsel
I wasn't entirely sure they were mantis until today when I saw 3 of them get too close to each other and from out of nowhere, these large pairs of pincers came out of each one and they started to fight!
I don't want an aggresive tank.
So, sorry if this is a dumb question, but should I be worried? I have no fish... so if I don't get a fish to eat them while they are still little, will they end up growing to full size? (Ok, sorry, I know you guys are dedicated to keeping these critters, but I'm just plain scared of ending up with a nano tank that I can't even put my hands in!)
The truth is, I already hear clicking at night, so I'm sure I have one adult somewhere. So far that one adult seems to be fairly harmless.. (althought I did see my lettuce nudibrach get dragged off into the crack of a rock...

Thanks for any advice you may have.
damsel