mantis shrimp eggs

[schmuttis]

I was talking with my LFS person last night about the 2 mantis I extracted from my rock and the one that keeps alluding me. His comment was that if I had 3 adult mantis in the rock I'm sure to have some eggs and should soon be inundated with baby mantis.

Has anyone with TBS rock had this problem? I'm really hoping he's wrong about this.

 

[HowardW]

<<< His comment was that if I had 3 adult mantis in the rock I'm sure to have some eggs and should soon be inundated with baby mantis. >>>


LOLOL, I think he's full of it.

 

[figuerres]

Re: mantis shrimp eggs

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9540826#post9540826 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by schmuttis
I was talking with my LFS person last night about the 2 mantis I extracted from my rock and the one that keeps alluding me. His comment was that if I had 3 adult mantis in the rock I'm sure to have some eggs and should soon be inundated with baby mantis.

Has anyone with TBS rock had this problem? I'm really hoping he's wrong about this.

if mantis are anything like related animals then ...

a femail will hold a bunch of eggs under her tail till they hatch.


then you have a large number of tiny ones that have to spread out to live.... in a small system like a reef tank with pumps and power heads most young would be killed by the pumps or get caught in filters....


thats if they do not go thru a zooplankton stage first... then they really will be hard to find.....

to "raise" them you would have to find a way to keep them alive for a while till they moult about 10-20 times....

I have seen this as a kid when a crawfish had eggs....
had about a billion tiny crawfish for a short time but they soon die if not exposed to a large volume of water.....
too many of them in one tub...

of course that was a kid who did not know much back then

 

[schmuttis]

That sure does sound logical - I hope you're right. The only part I didn't understand was the zooplankton stage. What does that mean and how is it different?

 

[figuerres]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9548230#post9548230 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by schmuttis
That sure does sound logical - I hope you're right. The only part I didn't understand was the zooplankton stage. What does that mean and how is it different?

some things come out as a small baby that grows.... much like say a baby cat starts as a kitten and you know what it is.

many sea organisims start as very tiny swimming animals that often do not even look like the adult.

if it's an animal, is's tiny, it swims, and it will change later then it's a part of the "soup" we call zooplankton.

I saw a thing last night on national geographic channel on the galapogos that had footage of a zoo-o of a lobster, looked like a cross between a jellyfish and a spider -- not at all like a lobster.

this is part of how they reach more area....let the waves spread them out, as they eat and grow they reach a size where they can't float and sink to the bottom, then they take on adult form and become what we recognise.

 

[BrianPlankis]

You do not need to worry about baby mantis from the mantis commonly found on TBS rock. Their offspring have an extended larval period that need to feed in the water column. This presents many problems in a standard reef tank and I have not heard a single report of a mantis breeding successfully in a reef tank. But I've only been in the hobby 5 years, so maybe I haven't been around long enough

If mantis babies were easy to raise, someone would be selling captive raised purple people eater mantis for $200 each

Your LFS person is mis-informed.

Brian