Mantis I.D.
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Gonodactylus
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Do you know where it is from? It looks like a small species of Gonodactylellus from the Indo-Pacific, but without a close-up of the telson, I can't tell if it is from the Americas (Neogonodactylus) or the Indo-Pacific.
Roy
Roy
Joypaws83
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I believe it came from rock I got from Harbor Aquatics and it is Fijii rock. I really dont have a good enough camera to get any closer without losing focus. The mantis is only about an inch long and is bright green everywhere. I can't tell by researching other sites because they don't show juvenile mantis photos. I have a nano set up for it, but I don't know what it is or how big it gets.
Gonodactylus
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Joy,
As I suspected, it is a Gonodactylellus. It is not a juvenile. It probably will not get larger than 1.5 inches. Without seeing the telson, I'm only guessing, but it could be G. affinis. Is there any hint of a faint white stripe extending across the anterior part of the telson?
Roy
As I suspected, it is a Gonodactylellus. It is not a juvenile. It probably will not get larger than 1.5 inches. Without seeing the telson, I'm only guessing, but it could be G. affinis. Is there any hint of a faint white stripe extending across the anterior part of the telson?
Roy
Gonodactylus
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It is probably not G. affinis if there is no hint of a stripe. Without a close-up of the telson, about all I can tell ou is that it probably lives in shallow water (less than 15 feet) and probably will not get larger than about 35 mm.
Roy
Roy
would a G.Affinis cause any problems in a reef tank? i know that this sounds rather stupid (on my part) but i'm still cycling my mantis house. i've got my other one in a conainer in my reef tank where he can live until it's settled (that's the brown one i was asking about - still alive & going well)
anyway, the LFS rang me yesterday telling me they'd found a tiny green mantis if i wanted it, naturally i hot-footed it down there. the thing was minute! 15mm long if it was lucky, & that's standing on "tippy-telson" & only 2mm wide, it's pale green with the white stripe.
the reason i want to know if it would cause any problem in the reef tank was that naturally it got out of the container in the reef tank & is now in the tank.
thanx in advance for any thoughts
anyway, the LFS rang me yesterday telling me they'd found a tiny green mantis if i wanted it, naturally i hot-footed it down there. the thing was minute! 15mm long if it was lucky, & that's standing on "tippy-telson" & only 2mm wide, it's pale green with the white stripe.
the reason i want to know if it would cause any problem in the reef tank was that naturally it got out of the container in the reef tank & is now in the tank.
thanx in advance for any thoughts
Gonodactylus
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At 15 mm it is about 2-3 months old. Maximum size will be around 28 mm and it will take at least a couple of years - probably longer - to reach that size. It will take only the smallest snails and hermits and mostly eats amphiopods and other tiny in-fauna. I would not worry about it.
Roy
Roy
excellent!
that's what i thought.
the way that my long nosed hawk fish has cleaned up most of the pistol shrimp population in the tank i was sure that i wouldn't really have to worry about it at all, but Mum was pretty upset that it'd gotten out so i just wanted to make 100% sure. cheers
that's what i thought.
the way that my long nosed hawk fish has cleaned up most of the pistol shrimp population in the tank i was sure that i wouldn't really have to worry about it at all, but Mum was pretty upset that it'd gotten out so i just wanted to make 100% sure. cheers
