Lysiosquillina maculata pair

[Gonodactylus]

The pair that I established in my lab have basically finished their burrow and today started capping the entrances and taking up a "hunting" stance. THe male is still feeding the female, but she hunts occasionally as well. They are in a standard 100 gallon tank with a foot of sand in a 5 inch longitudinal compartment. Some of you asked for me to post photos of the set-up. I finally took a few pretty bad shots, but I couldn't get them down to the size limits of this site. One of my colleagues put them on another site that features stomatopods.

Roy

 

[Uriel]

Dr Roy,

Ron here (The blue haired guy from your lecture in Hayward, thank you again , by the way).

Do you often feed these animal live food?

I assume that the occassional damsel or equivalent would be a good thing to keep their hunting instincts in good shape?


-Ron

 

[Gonodactylus]

They actually are in a grass shrimp mode right now and rejected the last fish I gave them. This is fairly common in stomaotpods - they get eating one thing and won't switch until they are really hungry. They get a couple of grass shrimp each every day.

Roy

 

[rwhhunt]

Dr. Roy, Where is your colleagues site, so we can check out this pics?

 

[majestic sea life]

Luni posted pics on grimereefers. This is a link to the page

Go down a few post for more pics

~Brian

 

[ReefGeekster]

Bravo! Glad you got the pair together and having success in the new venture, keep us posted.

 

[Gonodactylus]

The male quite feeding last week and both the male and female have been seen infrequently at the entrances. Tonight I found a partial molt skin from the male that was thrown out both entrances.

Roy

 

[sandlot13]

what does that mean???? mating perhaps? gosh i wish i could just see your guys lab! i bet its amazing.... thanks for all your help with us Roy, you have been a huge help to all of us mantis lovers

 

[Gonodactylus]

We know that in the field pairs molt synchronously although we don't know what cues are responsible for this. This pair had only been together for a few weeks, so there may not have been time for synchrony to occur. We don't know if males keep feeding when the female is brooding eggs. We suspect that she does not feed at this time.

Roy