Mantis and flatworms

[Agu]

Went to do my weekly waterchange and suck out the flatworms today, but I couldn't find any flatworms. Granted I've been vacumming them out and maintaining good water quality, but that's never eliminated them before. Is there a chance my mantis (n. wennerae) is dining on flatworms ?

Agu

 

[dwarfatize]

I wouldn't think so. but this is probably a q for the doc.

 

[Gonodactylus]

Why not? I eat a few in my lettuce salad now and then. Some flatworms incorporate chemical defenses, but others are palatable and I have seen stomatopods take them.

Roy

 

[Agu]

Why not? I eat a few in my lettuce salad now and then. Roy

What kind of dressing ? Vinegar and a hint of pickling lime ?

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Agu

 

[RogueCorps]

I eat a few in my lettuce salad now and then.
Roy

Wow! Scientists are pretty fearless...

-R