My smithii might be dead

[Lehman]

Woke up this morning and he is curled up under the rock hes usually at and none of his swimmerettes are moving and he is not responding when i shine the flashlight on him. Hes completely motionless. Is it possible he is molting(keeping my first 2 mantis' at the moment and never seen a molt yet)? Kind of bummed right now since I had a scare when I acclimated him 2 weeks ago. The past couple days he has been pretty active and smashing the crap out of anything and everything. I tested the water and there isnt an ammonia spike yet so im not sure what to think.

0ppm Amm.
0ppm NO2
0ppm NO3
1.024 salinity
78F-80F
8.2 PH

Kind of odd if he is dead but the other guy on here that got a Smithii from Blue Zoo the same time I did had his die a few days ago and his params were also good.

 

[DanInSD]

Hmmm... could be a bad molt. Bummer.

 

[Hetfield6j]

Interesting. My smithii i got from blue zoo also died. Almost same way too, under a rock kinda curled. Everthing else in my tank is fine and i cant figure out what it was. Bummer.

 

[Lehman]

Yep hes dead. No idea what went wrong. Kinda ticked to have paid that much and have him die not 2 weeks later.

 

[mattyice]

hmm chances are that it could just be a chemical getting in the water from your hands or something but besides that i have no idea

 

[Fuzznutz]

Sorry to hear it.

 

[helipilot]

What a bummer. Don't give up, I got my Smithii from the same place 5 months ago and he's a real trip.

 

[rott]

where did you get your mantis from i have been looking for a peacock or other brightly colored one for a month now