my 3 gallon mantis tank thread (lots of pics)

[drnkjunglist]

going to pick up my mantis today after work, should have some new pics of the hood i made last night and the mantis tonight!

 

[drnkjunglist]

got him finaly

got him finaly

Here are some pics of him before i turned off the lights for a bit...

heres the hood i made..

more pics tomorrow

 

[drnkjunglist]

heres a quick video i made. going to make another one tonight when i get some more live food for him. i was thinking about going to the beach and getting a couple sand crabs, u think he would like those?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbo0XJpez0M

 

[Argent]

seems like a really big mantis for that small of a tank...

but cool video regardless...

 

[drnkjunglist]

hes not that big actualy. the tank is 24 inches long. one day i will prolly move him into a 10G or something

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Your 3 gallon tank, is 24 inches long?
How wide and tall is it?

 

[jimi thing]

This is making me want to set up a mantis tank!

 

[drnkjunglist]

if you see the first post on this thread there is a link to tigahboys tank which is the same design i used for mine except mine is 24 instead of 23 inches long..

 

[batguano]

Very cool set-up. Quite inspirational actually. I would like a stomatopod, that looks like a do-able set-up. What is the substrate?

 

[fish590a]

nice set-up

 

[Qckwzrd]

The set-up is nice. I seen the price of the light (which they have on Bigals.com also) but what did the tank cost you? And how often do you do water changes?

 

[danskim]

Any updates?

 

[drnkjunglist]

not really any updates, i have moved from the smaller tank into a 10 gallon cause i had to break down my 60 gallon due to electric bills. kinda bummed about it, but i got the manits and 3 fish in the 10 gallon and they seem to be doing good. maybe ill post some pics of it in a bit.

 

[danskim]

I see.