Mantis ID

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TMPoften

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I bought this under the discription of a Smithii. And after looking at it I believe it has to be something else, to me his meral spots look almost green. could I get others opinions? His body is a dark olive green but he has shades of purple, blue and red. He is very interactive with me, he doesnt leave the cover of rocks but often comes out of holes and pokes his eyes out. Very aggressive, whenever I stick the feeding tool in the tank he bashes it.

This is the link to his picture.

http://www.mypicshare.com/z1vnafuspic.html
 
are you sure the meral spots aren't orange? like a G. ternatensis?

the only possibilities i know of for red intersegmental lines are G. smithii or G. tern.
 
Doesnt that picture clearly show the meral spots as being green? or are the meral spots on the end of his "clubs"?
 
yes i see green meral spots too, but i was thinking that maybe the colour in the pic was off (which does happen).

well in that case, i have no idea what it is. odd. everything else (but the merals) tell me G. tern.
 
The meral spots I see are orange with a white ring around them. G ternatensis?? Check out the pic on Dr. Roy's list.
 
The mearl spots are blue tinged but definately orange.
Reclusive and highly aggressive.
G.ternatensis
 
I dont see any orange in the meral spots? Could you tell me where you see it? Maybe I am looking in the wrong spot. Thanks for you help everyone.
 
According to Dr. Roy, "G. Ternatensis chips out cavities in center of live, branching corals"."Will chip live branching coral". I noticed you have a nice looking torch in the upper left of your picture. Your picture looks very similar to the picture on Dr. Roy's List.
 
The meral spot is the orange dish on it's upper arm. In your picture, it is surrounded by a white-greenish ring.
 
Yea... the breaker for my ac flipped off and the house got up to 87 degrees, when I got home from work i turned the ac back on but the torch died, along with some star polyps. That mantis shrimp is very very hardy though. He lived through that, the tank was over 88 degrees when I got home, and during shipping all of the water drained out of the container and I just threw him in(I didnt have the ability to acclimate him) and he made it.....

Thanks for the help everyone
 
Yours could be a male!! Mine is female!! I think your pic shows the mantis to have blue anntenuals if so it is male G. Ternatensis!
 
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