My pair of peacock mantis...

[diabolus_sg]

hi all, just to share....

my new pair of peacock mantis which is still at the fish store.

They mated right infront of us while we were admiring them.

 

[kentrob11]

A mated pair of peacocks? You are insanely lucky! It's hard enough to find one these days, much less a mated pair...Great find!!!! Can't wait to see more pics...

 

[diabolus_sg]

yupz...

was planning to get only one, and when the LFS owner put the other one into the same tank, they started mating!

at that point of time, just getting only one of them is no longer an option.

 

[FishFamily]

They look great.

 

[oddball_from_ac]

awsome find man, good luck with them.
dylan

 

[Gonodactylus]

Slow down a bit and take a deep breath. Odontodactylus scyllarus DO NOT pair. They will mate at any time in the reproductive cycle, but they will not live together for more than a few hours (usually - a few days at the most). If you keep them together, you will end up with one or none. You can keep them in a tank with a divider and let them mate occassionally. That is what we do and the female will produce eggs every few months. However, this is not a monogamous species and if you keep them together the first time one molts, the female lays eggs, or one of them gets up cranky, that will be the end of the association.

Roy

 

[diabolus_sg]

thanks for the advise.

this means that i have to separate the both of them most of the time, letting them see each other for a couple of hours each day?

i'll most probably do that.

thanks again!

 

[ebacon]

Old thread.. But new life, would it be feasible to put two in a large tank, say a 55 with burrows at opposite ends, if not would a simple egg rate barrier be adequate? Suggestions on how to separate but still allowing contact? Any one actually hatched the eggs?

 

[TundraGuy]

Nope nope and nope. Dude your not in new territory. We all would love to keep more then one. But the reality is most can't keep one peacock in a 55 more than a year. Good luck start with one then move up to two in a system like Khan's system divided into there own enclosed spaces. Once you got that down then move onto mating. The good Doc Roy suggest otherwise then your not going to reinvent the wheel.

 

[sTefaniA]

Old thread.. But new life, would it be feasible to put two in a large tank, say a 55 with burrows at opposite ends, if not would a simple egg rate barrier be adequate? Suggestions on how to separate but still allowing contact? Any one actually hatched the eggs?

I have a male and a female in a 30g and they are separated by double eggcrate. They don't seem to care and they both have burrows. They are not adults, I guess they are around 4" the male has molted already and the female is smaller.

The tank is connected to my 1000g system so I have very stable parameters. I plan on giving them their own separate tank but they seem very comfortable for now. I don't have any long term experience with this but I am not intending to keep them this way either.