cephalopoder
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I have had this mantis for 4 months now and it is doing great. It is one hell of a smasher about 4-4.5" long. It is fed a varity of foods and is a hermit crab or astria snails worst nightmare. This beast will just smash them to bits!!!
When I threw in about 6 astria snails a month ago, I awoke to the loud smashing sounds of snails getting pounded every 6 am. I am glad I have a acrylic tank, because it knocks the snails off the acrylic with such force I think glass would shatter. Dr Roy ID the beast as a female
Gonodactylus chiragra.
It is housed in a CPR MRT 13 gallon mini reef with 4" of fine sand 10 lbs of live rock, temp around 79f, modified bak pak2 skimmer and carbon bag. The tank has macro algaes, mushrooms, leather coral, xenia, buttons, tube anemone, sand sifting cucumber and 36 watts of pc light.
Most of the time she stays in her home under the rock she has dug out. A 1.25 gallon water change is done bi weekly.
B ionic and esv iodide are added with the use of reef crystals at 1.025. I also alternate use of DTs and esv phyto plankton every other day. I have tank pics if any one would like to see. Its hard to get good pics of her in the tank but I have some killer video
When I threw in about 6 astria snails a month ago, I awoke to the loud smashing sounds of snails getting pounded every 6 am. I am glad I have a acrylic tank, because it knocks the snails off the acrylic with such force I think glass would shatter. Dr Roy ID the beast as a female
Gonodactylus chiragra.
It is housed in a CPR MRT 13 gallon mini reef with 4" of fine sand 10 lbs of live rock, temp around 79f, modified bak pak2 skimmer and carbon bag. The tank has macro algaes, mushrooms, leather coral, xenia, buttons, tube anemone, sand sifting cucumber and 36 watts of pc light.
Most of the time she stays in her home under the rock she has dug out. A 1.25 gallon water change is done bi weekly.
B ionic and esv iodide are added with the use of reef crystals at 1.025. I also alternate use of DTs and esv phyto plankton every other day. I have tank pics if any one would like to see. Its hard to get good pics of her in the tank but I have some killer video

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