tinypieceofkrill
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Can somebody Id this guy...
Matis ID
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DensityMan
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthro...costraca/royslist/species.php?name=g_falcatus
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthro...costraca/royslist/species.php?name=g_chiragra
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthro...malacostraca/royslist/images/g_platysoma2.jpg
Theres a few possibilities courtesy of Dr. Caldwell's site. Personally, if the side-spots are a good identifier (and not just a random occurence), my money would be on the last link: G. platysoma.
Most positive ID's will require a good, clear shot of the meral spots (interior of the raptorial appendages) and a top-shot of the telson (last tail segment).
Beautiful specimen regardless.
Good luck.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthro...costraca/royslist/species.php?name=g_chiragra
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthro...malacostraca/royslist/images/g_platysoma2.jpg
Theres a few possibilities courtesy of Dr. Caldwell's site. Personally, if the side-spots are a good identifier (and not just a random occurence), my money would be on the last link: G. platysoma.
Most positive ID's will require a good, clear shot of the meral spots (interior of the raptorial appendages) and a top-shot of the telson (last tail segment).
Beautiful specimen regardless.
Good luck.
Neardaocean311
In Memoriam
Beautiful specimen
That is a G. platysoma, 100% positive.
G. platy is the only mantis with that orange on black(blue?) tail marking. I have one, btw.
Some folks have remarked that they hide a lot, but mine is one of my most outgoing Mantis (I have 8 of them...). I have found that my platy (Glaurung) goes in for long molts (Several weeks at a time, once almost a month), but he is very active when he is not locked away.
Mibe prefers hermits to anything else, though he will eat thawed shrimp/scallop/squid, as well as snails.
Never whacks the tank wall, or the feeding stick,really.
An all around fabulous mantis to have.
Hope that helped a bit.
-Ron
G. platy is the only mantis with that orange on black(blue?) tail marking. I have one, btw.
Some folks have remarked that they hide a lot, but mine is one of my most outgoing Mantis (I have 8 of them...). I have found that my platy (Glaurung) goes in for long molts (Several weeks at a time, once almost a month), but he is very active when he is not locked away.
Mibe prefers hermits to anything else, though he will eat thawed shrimp/scallop/squid, as well as snails.
Never whacks the tank wall, or the feeding stick,really.
An all around fabulous mantis to have.
Hope that helped a bit.
-Ron
tinypieceofkrill
New member
Thanks for the help. I've had him about a week now. He hides a lot more than my O. scyllarus, but he is also doing a lot of construction in the live rock. The other day, he came out of the rock wearing an orange vest and a hard hat.
