Mantis in QT Tank/Frag Tank

[tonyh67]

For more than two years I have had a little two inch green guy smasher that hitchhiked on my TBS liverock. Has been in a 10 gallon with some live rock Xenia, GSP, and whatever other "things" I want to remove from the main tank.

What I am wondering...I would like to move him to a 29 gallon and use it as a frag and quarantine tank. Would he pose any problems to fish I might want to QT in there?

I plan on running the tank with live rock, sand/crushed coral bottom. It would be the mantis home, with a few guests now and then.

 

[coryjac0b]

when you have a fish to go into QT, put an eggcrate in to separate, when its only the mantis, pull it out.

 

[tonyh67]

I am all but certain my mantis could fit through eggcrate? But, you are suggestion some sort of tank division?

 

[Docbones]

If your gonna QT fish in the tank your better off going bare bottom no rock, this way if you do add a fish or a coral with with an issue it will not move into your sand bed

 

[tonyh67]

Will a "smasher" attack any fish?

 

[Thurge]

They can. It depends on the species and the individual. Yours, hitchicking in on TBS probably will leave most fish alone. I kept an N wennera (TBS matis) with damsels and corals, but it killed a Yllow Watchman Gobie and I suspect it in the death of a dwarf lion.