mantis

[CKreef]

Anyone interested in a mantis shrimp? I have had her for about 5 months in a tank. Very cool to watch!!! Have to get rid of her tearing down a tank. Species N. Wennare

 

[rsteagall]

Male or female?

I have a female that has produced eggs 2 times now, but no male to fertilize. I need to check on compatabiltiy of these in close quarters. If its possible for them to co-exist, I'd be very interested.

-Ryan

 

[wooglin]

I am interested if you dont find a taker.

 

[CKreef]

Its a female she has laid eggs also

 

[wooglin]

I have a species tank that is empty that would be good. Do you still want to let her go? If so I am interested.

 

[rsteagall]

I'm passing on this one since its female. They would definitely kill each other.

Whoever gets it... they are really awesome. If you have a species specific tank, I feed mine 2x per week by splitting a frozen cube of plankton/krill into thirds. I feed using tongs. She has been in my 12g nano cube for about 6 months now along with some zoas and gsp. It doesn't look the best, but in the display I've created a cube using eggcrate and filled it with cheato. She likes to get inside this and play around. She also likes to dig....alot


I just took some pics and uploaded them of my mantis tank.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rsteagall/Mantis_tank

 

[rsteagall]

I took half a day off to get my new blue jaw and I also bought some feeder guppies for my mantis (I need a name). I just popped one in and it took all of .5 seconds for it to get attacked and eaten. Pretty wicked though. It was smashed, nabbed and taken into her den. Cool stuff!

 

[rsteagall]

wooglin, are you going to get this?

 

[wooglin]

Yes working on Logistics.

 

[Angela Short]

What ever happened to that crazy looking hairy crab I gave you Wooglin? Did he kill prey or did you ever feed him live stuff? He was huge!

 

[wooglin]

He is no longer with us. I have his nicely preserved carcas with my collection that sits on the shelf above my 75.

 

[Angela Short]

:lol: it was big enouph!

 

[rsteagall]

something eat it or did it just die?