Made my mantis very happy ......

[Agu]

Walking on the beach in SW Florida there are millions of Donax clams just below the surface of the sand at the shoreline,

http://www.jaxshells.org/donaxv.htm

Arthur, the n. wennerae mantis thinks it's great fun when I drop a half dozen of these little clams (1/2") in his tank. I've never seen him out and about as much as when there's live food to be dug out of the sand.

fwiw,

Agu

 

[EzRida206]

I wish I had a souce of live food nearby, im still trying to get mine to eat frozen shrimp - only has eaten live snails in my tank so far.

 

[APynckel]

hey Agu, would you be interested in shipping a handful of those clams to me?

 

[opihi]

same here Agu! do you think they would ship in a thermos well?

 

[jdieck]

Oh Yeah... I made mine very, very happy also... After trying to take him out of my main for four months I was able to do it with lots of work and patiance. I had him set in my Q tank with some arranged rock and such. Great Neon Green funny creature.

He had been in his tank for about three months.

THe other day I required a couple of rock pieces to stabilize a coral arrangement I made on my main and took them from the Q tank.

Needless to say moments later I saw this little guy peaking at me out of a hole and I could swear I saw him laughing... The little #%*$@.

I totally forgot he was in there when I took the rocks!!

 

[dc]

I'm thinking just like these other guys! Actually mine will eat about anything, he especially likes PE Mysis. I occassionally feed him feeder ghost shrimp.