Mantis tank temperatures
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AttackDonut
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78-80, though I've had my mantis survive 100 degrees! over a 48 hour period (heater that was in the sump went nuts while I was away)
Gonodactylus
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You need to know what species you have, where it is from, and what temperature it has been kept at recently.
Hopefully in a week or so I will have up a list of the 30 or so stomatopods occasionally available from suppliers along with photos, temperature requirements, etc.
Roy
Hopefully in a week or so I will have up a list of the 30 or so stomatopods occasionally available from suppliers along with photos, temperature requirements, etc.
Roy
Gonodactylus
Premium Member
N. wennerae from the Bahamas this time of year would do well at 23 - 28 C. A good long-term temperature is around 24-25.
Basically the same is true of O. scyllarus although I have seen O. s. living in temperate seas at temperatures as low as 19 and as high as 31. However, these extreme termperatures may be tolerated only by locally adapted populations plus high or low temperatures can present special husbandry probleims in the home aquarium.
Roy
Basically the same is true of O. scyllarus although I have seen O. s. living in temperate seas at temperatures as low as 19 and as high as 31. However, these extreme termperatures may be tolerated only by locally adapted populations plus high or low temperatures can present special husbandry probleims in the home aquarium.
Roy
Dr Roy,
This brings up an interesting question. I have a 'mantis hotel' that I have converted out of a 55 gallon tank (Still empty right now).
I currently have 5 mantis, and will be housing 3 of them in the sections of the hotel.
The species are:
1-O scyllarus
2-G platysoma
3-G chiraga
4-G viridis
5-G ternatensis
I am also looking to get a P cilata very soon, as well as the inevitable N wenn in a TBS liverock shipment.
Which 3 have the closest temperature tolerance range? I am going to house the heater in a 30 gallon sump, and I would like things to be as comfortable for them as possible. I am almost certainly going to put the O scyllarus in a 25 gallon tank that I have seperately from the 55,since he has less bright lighting tolerance, as well as a penchant (as you mentioned) for digging under/smashing through dividers to eat his little cousins.
-Ron
PS: I seem to have stopped capitolizing the second part of the names (P. Cilata), this is the correct manner of noting them,I assume,since you always seem to do so.
This brings up an interesting question. I have a 'mantis hotel' that I have converted out of a 55 gallon tank (Still empty right now).
I currently have 5 mantis, and will be housing 3 of them in the sections of the hotel.
The species are:
1-O scyllarus
2-G platysoma
3-G chiraga
4-G viridis
5-G ternatensis
I am also looking to get a P cilata very soon, as well as the inevitable N wenn in a TBS liverock shipment.
Which 3 have the closest temperature tolerance range? I am going to house the heater in a 30 gallon sump, and I would like things to be as comfortable for them as possible. I am almost certainly going to put the O scyllarus in a 25 gallon tank that I have seperately from the 55,since he has less bright lighting tolerance, as well as a penchant (as you mentioned) for digging under/smashing through dividers to eat his little cousins.
-Ron
PS: I seem to have stopped capitolizing the second part of the names (P. Cilata), this is the correct manner of noting them,I assume,since you always seem to do so.
Gonodactylus
Premium Member
I would aim for 24-25 C.
