rklutt
New member
Halluah Ya... Finally caught the littler bugger! I got him as a hitchhiker on some killer gulf rock about 2 months ago. Started hearing the clicks hours after I placed the rock in the tank!
I have been watching him for awhile and tried to use the bottle trap with some bait shrimp! I caught one of my damsels twice! Dumb damsel! Tried to stab him with a skewer... to fast!
Last night I took a piece of shrimp and stabed it with the skewer and made sure it was not gonna come off easy. I then started to bait the mantis with the shrimp. He was all into it, he kept coming up and graping it and tugging on it with all his might. I then lowered a net into the tank as well. I started to move the bait out further and further fromt the rock he was hidding behind. He soon got brave and came out into the open! First try was not successful and the damn fish kept getting in the way too. I then baited him again... got him to really move out into the open and then lowered the net and he shot back right into the net... along with one of the dump fish. So I then got the fish out and back into the tank and moved the mantis into one of the nurse/floating tanks that you use for baby fish and stuff with a nice lid on it. he spent most of the night "popping" the plastic jail.
He is marron with redish and blue tail fins and about 2 1/2" - 3" long and not happy to be captured!
Rob
I have been watching him for awhile and tried to use the bottle trap with some bait shrimp! I caught one of my damsels twice! Dumb damsel! Tried to stab him with a skewer... to fast!
Last night I took a piece of shrimp and stabed it with the skewer and made sure it was not gonna come off easy. I then started to bait the mantis with the shrimp. He was all into it, he kept coming up and graping it and tugging on it with all his might. I then lowered a net into the tank as well. I started to move the bait out further and further fromt the rock he was hidding behind. He soon got brave and came out into the open! First try was not successful and the damn fish kept getting in the way too. I then baited him again... got him to really move out into the open and then lowered the net and he shot back right into the net... along with one of the dump fish. So I then got the fish out and back into the tank and moved the mantis into one of the nurse/floating tanks that you use for baby fish and stuff with a nice lid on it. he spent most of the night "popping" the plastic jail.
He is marron with redish and blue tail fins and about 2 1/2" - 3" long and not happy to be captured!
Rob
