omg. Baby Mantis!!!

[Fairytail]

So I look in my tank today.... And find babies!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!

I'm stunned. I have two Neogonodactylus wennerae in the tank, they get along fine. One is about 1 1/4inches long, the other is a touch over two. So now I'm positive they are boy/girl.

Anything special I should do? Last nite(pre-baby discovery) I cleaned about 50% of the alegea off the sides of the tank. I'm assuming this is what they are eating now.

 

[Psyire]

Apparently they need to be individually raised or they will eat each other?

 

[Uriel]

Those aren't mantis shrimp, they are some form on 'pod'.
The look like the little mysis or copepods that swarm a few of my mantis tanks.
They are beneficla, btw, so don't try and remove them.

And yes, they go into a feeding frenzy when you scrape algae.

Best tank moment last week: I sprinkled a few bits of marine flake in my G. tern's tank, to see if anything in there would eat it. A pod grabbed a flake and was swimming around in circles on the tank wall, chased by 3 or 4 other hungry pods. It looked like a game of 'keep away' played with a sheet of 4'x8' plywood.

-Ron

 

[Fairytail]

Do you know of any place that shows baby mantis photos?

I'm not sure how they got into my tank...... Or why... LOL. I havn't added any new rock in over a month(and a bunch of it was in my other tank 3montsh prior). I used sterile sand.... I guess as they get bigger we'll see what happens.

Those aren't mantis shrimp, they are some form on 'pod'.
The look like the little mysis or copepods that swarm a few of my mantis tanks.
They are beneficla, btw, so don't try and remove them.

And yes, they go into a feeding frenzy when you scrape algae.

Best tank moment last week: I sprinkled a few bits of marine flake in my G. tern's tank, to see if anything in there would eat it. A pod grabbed a flake and was swimming around in circles on the tank wall, chased by 3 or 4 other hungry pods. It looked like a game of 'keep away' played with a sheet of 4'x8' plywood.

-Ron

 

[SLKs reef]

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