Mantis ID?

[Calappidae]

Interesting, I thought blue light was only for the night effect in reef setups.

Actually, I was figuring red light because you know... red mantis... red surroundings.. red color... it would try to blend with it's surroundings.

What if I did 1 red LED for color, and one deep blue LED for depth?

 

[Fartin'Gary]

Interesting, I thought blue light was only for the night effect in reef setups.

Actually, I was figuring red light because you know... red mantis... red surroundings.. red color... it would try to blend with it's surroundings.

What if I did 1 red LED for color, and one deep blue LED for depth?

Just use normal lighting and get some red algae like this stuff. That small mantis is most likely an intertidal/more shallow water species that is used to brighter light and changing water parameters. I don't think it will stay red because of red light waves. O.Scyllarus and O. Havenensis live farther down in the blue spectrum of light and you don't see them turning blue. I think it was to do with the colors in the surrounding environment more than anything.

It's possible that a red light might turn it green haha that would be an interesting experiment.


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http://brianneschendo.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/algae1.jpg

 

[Calappidae]

I had those before and they all turned green on me :twitch:

 

[Fartin'Gary]

lol weird. They had some at the shop around here in their sump that was bright red. It was there for months until someone bought it all. I got a little but my peacock confiscated all of it right after I got done planting it in the sand.

 

[peasofme]

shallow water animals are green, deeper water are red or purple or such. they also change color to camoflague themselves with their surroundings. most animals in our tanks turn green due to the light.

 

[Calappidae]

shallow water animals are green, deeper water are red or purple or such. they also change color to camoflague themselves with their surroundings. most animals in our tanks turn green due to the light.

Color: Variable, often solid green but brown, brick red or cream, sometimes mottled; like many gonodactyloids, this species changes color depending on habitat color and depth. Animals from below 10 m are often red; shallow animals green or cream. In the aquarium under bright, broad spectrum light, red animals usually turn green after one or two molts; meral spot white..

True,

I had the algae and it just starting turning green on me. Not sure if this was because of new growths or what but eventually they completely were green... then the turbo snails got them...