My Ultimate Multi Mantis System(s)
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Kharn
MANTISMAN
Small video of me teasing Minnie (female to my large G.graphurus pair) she seemed to be on the.....PMS today and really didn't want to back down, very hyperactive all day.....
perhaps its because of the large hermit I put in with her that she has been working on for a few hours
details to come (vids) when she cracks the 'puzzle'!
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perhaps its because of the large hermit I put in with her that she has been working on for a few hours
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I must have missed it somewhere, but how big are the tanks in system B and are you using eggcrate for a divider?
I'm trying to decide what to do with my male/female peacocks. Use different tanks or divide the current 30g so they can both live there.
Do they dislike the presence of another mantis? Because they can see through the eggcrate. Do you use double eggcrate to be safe?
Love your system though. I've been planning to get one for years but something always comes in between.
I'm trying to decide what to do with my male/female peacocks. Use different tanks or divide the current 30g so they can both live there.
Do they dislike the presence of another mantis? Because they can see through the eggcrate. Do you use double eggcrate to be safe?
Love your system though. I've been planning to get one for years but something always comes in between.
Kharn
MANTISMAN
Tank Dimensions are as follows (the bottom tanks on each stand are 100mm taller then the ones above it to account for the water it needs to hold when the power goes out).
STAND A - Top Tank & Middle Tank = 600mmL x 300mmW x 350mmH (bottom is same L x W but 450mmH).
STAND B - Top Tank & Middle Tank = 900mmL x 300mmW x 350mmH (bottom is same L x W but 450mmH).
STAND C - Top Tank = 1200mmL x 150mmW x 600mmH / Bottom Tank = 1200mmL x 150mmW x 700mmH
Stand B Top tank is split in half via a Permenant fixed in place Divider, 1 of the halves (making each half 450mmL) to this top tank (compartment as I like to call it) is again split in half via 2 eggcrate sheets 2 mostly because 1 just flaps in the water whilst 2 makes it more rigid and straight) because one of the compartments is halved it gives the 2 smaller compartments that house Maximus & Minnie around 200mmLx300mmWx350mmH, although Minnie has free range of Maximus side as well due to being able to fit through the egg crate.
In the opposite compartment (the second half to the full 900mm) is my newest member a tiny tiny G.T. which should get bigger then both Minnie & Maximus hence why I put it in a larger compartment to begin with.
Hope this clears it up xD
Kharn
MANTISMAN
Another video I made of Minnie working a large hermit crab!
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I got this huge Hermit bigger then a tennis ball! Can't wait to get it on camera up against The Juggernaut. :lol:
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I got this huge Hermit bigger then a tennis ball! Can't wait to get it on camera up against The Juggernaut. :lol:
Kharn
MANTISMAN
looks like the tank is doing what you wanted it to do.
Now its all a matter of getting each (smasher) to bore into rock rather then under it (like Rocky has done) that way I can position the rocks (like Maximus & Minnie) for the best photo/video oppostunites. The Juggernaut being to big for this I sort of premeditated and gave it a cave to which it has adapted to and changed a lot blocking the gaps with coral rubble and making it overall inside, larger but the main thing is its entrance is rite at the front of the tank =) so makes good for pics!
Anyway here is a better picture of Rocky in his new Acan encrusted home!
now this is the EXACT thing I had hoped for because the colors of the corals just make it all together a nicer picture! =D
Kharn
MANTISMAN
Feeding Time!
On the menu for today we have prawn meat :lolspin:
ADAM
EVE
ROCKY took the food very fast off the stick but at least I caught his escape!
SHOCKWAVE
refused food but left it there anyway as I know he has been this way in the past refusing to take if from the stick but still consuming later on.
MAXIMUS
MINNIE
Took the food so fast off my feeding stick it left me laughing as I tried to juggle the camera in my other free hand....
THE KRAKEN
Boarded up inside a mound of coral rubble leading me to believe he is either molting or not hungry.
THE JUGGERNAUT
(love this pic! :inlove
STAND C
Both MORGOTH & THE LEVIATHAN are currently being with held food that is...dead food, there offered live food each couple of days but have so far refused in time they will go back to there natural intentions.
More to come!!!!!
On the menu for today we have prawn meat :lolspin:
ADAM
EVE
ROCKY took the food very fast off the stick but at least I caught his escape!
SHOCKWAVE
refused food but left it there anyway as I know he has been this way in the past refusing to take if from the stick but still consuming later on.
MAXIMUS
MINNIE
Took the food so fast off my feeding stick it left me laughing as I tried to juggle the camera in my other free hand....
THE KRAKEN
Boarded up inside a mound of coral rubble leading me to believe he is either molting or not hungry.
THE JUGGERNAUT
(love this pic! :inlove
STAND C
Both MORGOTH & THE LEVIATHAN are currently being with held food that is...dead food, there offered live food each couple of days but have so far refused in time they will go back to there natural intentions.
More to come!!!!!
Kharn
MANTISMAN
That indeed I actually plan on collecting both my own hermits & fish soon (perhaps crabs too) as I know places where I can collect/cast net to catch them both for free
Also, I just put my order in with a good mate of mine whom collects marine creatures, I told him in order to 'dumb it down' that I was seeking 2 large spearers (not a pair) different species, that are colorful (not black/white with zebra stripes) and are both over 200mm long.
So we shall hear/see what he comes back with as he hasn't failed me yet =D
Kharn,
Do you do anything to your wild caught food? I.am fortunate to live on the beach here in Virginia, usa. I frequently feed Lizzy my 4" or so peacock what I know of as fiddler crabs, (invasive) Japanese shore crabs and small rock crabs, along with the fun of a blue crab battle every so often. It seems she knows when I have been food hunting so I feed.her a couple pretty quickly but the others I keep and feed the same frozen stuff I feed her, whatever fish and shrimp I've caught, soaked in selcon and Kent garlic extreme. Does this seem safe and or healthy for my mantis?
Do you do anything to your wild caught food? I.am fortunate to live on the beach here in Virginia, usa. I frequently feed Lizzy my 4" or so peacock what I know of as fiddler crabs, (invasive) Japanese shore crabs and small rock crabs, along with the fun of a blue crab battle every so often. It seems she knows when I have been food hunting so I feed.her a couple pretty quickly but the others I keep and feed the same frozen stuff I feed her, whatever fish and shrimp I've caught, soaked in selcon and Kent garlic extreme. Does this seem safe and or healthy for my mantis?
Kharn
MANTISMAN
Just got an email from Dural Irrigation!
My foot valves have been dispatched!
So I shall soon have a worry free, clog free system =D nearly EVERY good LFS that I have gone to utilizes these in there display tanks that are connected together so that alone says something....they may not be all the same time/make but there designs all share 1 thing in common.
My foot valves have been dispatched!
So I shall soon have a worry free, clog free system =D nearly EVERY good LFS that I have gone to utilizes these in there display tanks that are connected together so that alone says something....they may not be all the same time/make but there designs all share 1 thing in common.
Kharn
MANTISMAN
The only ingredient I have ever heard of being remotely good for a stomatopod is as you said above 'Selcon' regrettably you cannot buy it in premade form here (at least I cannot find it) and everytime I go to a LFS and ask them for 'Selcon' they give me weird looks and say how they do not have it but have other products which have selcon inside it.
As far as preparation well there isn't much you can do really there extremely tough animals capable of consuming what most wouldn't dare (evidence of a peacock not only killing a blue ring but consuming the blue ring as well totally harm free from the toxins in the blue ring).
Most of the time I am just careful about how I handle the prepared food, using latex gloves, cutting it on a board free of washing soap etc. its that sort of thing that is lethal to stomatopods, house hold agents like window cleaner / dish washing liquid.
Personally I have not collected in the wild yet myself however due to the ease of it I will soon, as there won't be a problem with it and be so much cheaper!
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